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942
L3
探
TAN, saguru, sagasu
search, probe
11 strokes
TANCHIdetection
TANKYŪinvestigation
saguridasusearch out
943
誕
TAN
birth, deceive
L3
15 strokes
TANJŌBIbirthday
KŌTANnativity
KYOTANfalsehood
Seal: ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 118
‘words; speak’, and 831 (’extend, stretch,
postpone’) as semantic and phonetic, meaning
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 34
‘hand’, and what is interpreted as CO (Kato,
Yamada) or CO (Ogawa), as phonetic with
associated sense ‘put hand in, search’, giving
‘look for’. YK1976:351; KJ1970:679; OT1968:420;
TA1968:789-92. Suggest ‘tree’ 73 and variant
of ‘hole’ 860.
Mnemonic: HAND PROBES HOLE IN TREE
‘extend’, giving ‘words extend out/are excessive’,
deceit’. While this is the original meaning, the
graph occurs more commonly in early usage
as a loan for ‘give birth’, according to Tōdō,
but Schuessler does not list ‘give birth’ among
the early Chinese meanings. OT1968:935;
TA1965:534-5; AS2007:553-4.
Mnemonic: USE STRETCHED WORDS TO
DECEIVE ABOUT A BIRTH
944
L3
段
DAN
step, grade
9 strokes
DANKAIstep, grade
KAIDANstairs
DANDANgradually
Bronze ; seal . Has 170 ‘hit/strike with
weapon’ (Katō follows Shuowen here and says
‘whip of bundled bamboo’, while Ogawa says
‘hit with club’), and as abbreviation of (CO,
‘tip, extremity’ [< growing tip of plant]) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘hit, strike (downwards)’,
giving ‘hit (something) downwards’.
Meanings such as ‘division, step’ represent
loan usage. Note: bronze occurrences of
include the element corresponding in shape
to . YK1976:353; MS1995:v1:714-5,v2:1054-5;
OT1968:545,807; KJ1970:686. Suggest taking
as steps cut in a cliff-face.
Mnemonic: STRIKE CLIFF-FACE TO MAKE STEPS
945
L3
暖
DAN, atatakai/meru
warm
13 strokes
DANBŌheater
DANRYŪwarm current
DANTŌmild winter
Seal () ; late graph (Shuowen); has
(CO; ‘ceremonial disc’ [OBI equivalent originally
shows hand pulling disc or similar]) as the
right-hand element in the traditional form.
Initially the determinative for this graph was
8 ‘fire, flames’, but later a variant evolved with
66 ‘sun’; / combined with as phonetic
with associated sense ‘warm’. gives ‘warmth
of a fire’, and gives ‘warmth of the sun’; over
time, the latter became the standard form.
YK1976:354; KJ1970:685-6; OT1968:473,631.
Suggest taking the right-side part as three
hands (in a variety of forms)
Mnemonic: THREE HANDS WARMING IN THE SUN
290 The 181 Sixth Grade Characters