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934
層
SŌ
93 (orig. pictograph of double steamer) as
stratum, layer
semantic and phonetic, meaning ‘be piled up’,
L3
14 strokes
giving ‘building of two (or more) storeys’; later,
sense was generalized to ‘pile up; layer’. Ogawa
KASŌlower classes
sees as an error for the different element
SŌUNstratus cloud
‘building’ (e.g. 127). YK1976:329; KJ1970:320;
KŌSŌBIRUskyscraper
OT1968:299. Suggest as ‘corpse’ 256, as
variant of ‘eight’ 70, ‘field’ 63, and ‘day’
66.
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Traditional form
has as lower element. Has , here not its
usual ‘corpse, prone person’, but as abbreviation
of meaning ‘roof, building’ (see 256), and
Mnemonic: LAYERS OF CORPSES PILE UP IN
FIELD OVER EIGHT DAYS
935
操
SŌ, misao, ayatsuru
handle, chastity
L3
16 strokes
SŌJŪSHIpilot
SESSŌintegrity
ayatsuriNINGYŌpuppet
Late graph. Has 34 ‘hand’, and (CO, mouths
on top of tree in are taken as birds’ mouths,
representing birds chirping or singing noisily,
hence an early meaning ‘noisy’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘hold firmly’ > overall
meaning ‘hold firmly’. By extension in figurative
sense, ‘maintain intention and not change
conduct’, i.e. ‘chastity’, as well as ‘handle/control’.
YK1976:330; KJ1970:435. Take as three boxes
405 and 73 ‘wood’.
Mnemonic: THREE WOODEN BOXES TAKE
SOME HANDLING
936
L3
蔵
ZŌSHOone’s library
ZŌTOKUharboring
sakagurawine-cellar
ZŌ, kura
store(house),
hide, keep, harbor
15 strokes
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has 53 ‘plants’, and (interpreted
in one view as ‘slave punished’, comprising
‘slave’ 543 with ‘wound’) as phonetic
with associated. sense taken as i] ‘cover over
to avoid people’s gaze’ (Katō, Yamada), or
ii] ‘put away’ (Ogawa), in either case giving
‘cover/hide under plants’, and by extension
‘store away; storehouse’. Qiu, though, considers
originally denoted a type of plant, and
treats ‘store away’ as a loan use. KJ1970:434;
OT1968:871; YK1976:332-3; QX2000:341-2;
MS1995:v2:1084-6. Take as ‘slave’ 543 and
as ‘halberd’ 545.
Mnemonic: HIDE SLAVE WITH HALBERD
UNDER PLANTS IN STOREHOUSE
937
臓
ZŌ, harawata
entrails, viscera
L3
19 strokes
ZŌKIintestines
NAIZŌviscera
SHINZŌGAKUcardiology
Late graph (late edition of Shuowen); traditional
. Has / 209 ‘flesh, body’, and 936
(’store’) as semantic and phonetic, meaning
‘store’, thus ‘body components stored away’, i.e.
‘internal organs, viscera, entrails’. YK1976:333;
OT1968:829; QX2000:342.
Mnemonic: ENTRAILS ARE STORED IN THE
BODY
288 The 181 Sixth Grade Characters