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946
値
CHI, atai, ne
price, value
L3
10 strokes
KACHIKANone’s values
neDANprice
nebikidiscount
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 41 ‘person’,
and 192 (‘upright; fix’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as i] ‘be equal to, correspond
to’ (Katō, Yamada), giving ‘two people
are equal’, or ii] ‘upright, stand (something)
upright’ (Ogawa, Tōdō). In either case, ‘price,
value’ is loan usage. YK1976:356-7; KJ1970:691;
OT1968:71; TA1965:88-90.
Mnemonic: UPRIGHT PERSON HAS FIXED
PRICE – GOOD VALUE
947
宙
CHŪ
space, sky, air
L3
8 strokes
UCHŪSENspaceship
CHŪgaerisomersault
CHŪnoriaerial stunt
Seal . Has 30 ‘roof, building’, and 421
(originally, probably depicted a wine sieve
948
L1
忠
CHŪ
loyalty, devotion
8 strokes
CHŪJITSU naloyal
CHŪSEIfidelity
CHŪKOKUadvice
Bronze seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has
164 ‘heart, mind’, and 59 (‘middle, inside,
center’) as phonetic with associated sense
or strainer; now means ‘reason’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken provisionally as
‘cover’, giving ‘roof covering’ (Yamada, Katō), or
‘space beneath roof, extensive space’ (Ogawa);
by extension, ‘space, the heavens’. Mizukami
looks to identify OBI equivalents. YK1976:361;
MS1995:v1:366-7; KJ1970:698-9; OT1968:275.
Mnemonic: REASON FOR SPACE UNDER
ROOF IS FOR AIR
taken variously as i] ‘empty, cavity’ (Katō,
Yamada), or ii] ‘fill up’ (Ogawa), or iii] ‘consistent
and harmonised’ (Tōdō). Interestingly, i] and
ii] are both taken to give essentially the same
overall meaning ‘devote one’s whole heart (to)’;
in the case of iii], ‘extensively unblemished
heart’. KJ1970:700; YK1976:361; OT1968:361;
TA1965:185.
Mnemonic: LOYALTY AND DEVOTION AT
CENTER OF ONE’S HEART
949
L3
著
11
CHO, ichijirushii,
arawasu
noted, write book
strokes
CHOSHAauthor
CHOMEIeminence
MEICHOmasterpiece
Late, post-Shuowen graph. Originally variant
popular form of NJK ‘chopsticks’ (Qiu
notes that in Han dynasty clerical script [see
Introduction] there was alternation between
58 ‘bamboo’ and 53 ‘plant’ as determinative).
314 (modern meaning ‘person’) serves
here as phonetic with associated sense ‘put
between’, thus ‘bamboo to put things between’.
In modern Japanese, meanings of such as
‘write a book’, ‘notable’, are loan usages. See too
364 ‘wear, arrive’. YK1976:363; KJ1970:495;
OT1968:859; QX2000:323-4.
Mnemonic: PERSON WITH PLANT ON HEAD
IS NOTED FOR WRITING BOOKS
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