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1000
L3
卵
RAN, tamago
egg, roe, spawn
7 strokes
RAN’Ōegg yolk
SANRANspawning
namatamagoraw egg
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Views diverge.
Several scholars take as a pictograph – Ogawa
considers to originally denote frog spawn, and
by extension ‘egg’; Tōdō is uncertain over the
specific shape, but speculates to be possibly fish
or insect eggs. The alternative treatment also
takes as a pictograph, depicting not eggs but
a pair of treadles on a loom, then borrowed on
the basis of similarity in shape to represent ‘eggs’
(Katō, Yamada). The former view seems tentative,
the latter more persuasive. OT1968:147;
TA1965:555-6; KJ1970:146; YK1976:489-90. Suggest
taking as frog spawn on stalks.
Mnemonic: SPOTTED BLOBS OF SPAWN ON
TWO UPRIGHT STALKS
1001
覧
RAN
‘bowl’ 300 in modern form), giving ‘supervise,
watch’, thus ‘see, look’. Based on classical
see, look
L1
17 strokes
Chinese usage, Shirakawa takes as action of
high-ranking individuals, but Schuessler feels
GORAN look, try
it may just represent a variant of the word represented
KAIRANcirculation
by 1159. TA1965:807; YK1976:490;
KANRANinspection
SS1984:866; AS2007:305-6.
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .
Has 20 ‘see’, and 1l59 q.v., orig. ‘look at
water surface in bowl as mirror’ (but minus
Mnemonic: SUPERVISOR LOOKS, BUT MISSES
THE BOWL
1002
L3
裏
13
RI, ura
reverse, back, inside,
lining
strokes
RIMENinside, back
urakefleece lining
urazukeruback up, support
Bronze ; seal . Has 444 ‘garment’, and
238 (‘village’) as phonetic with associated
sense usually taken as ‘inside’, giving ‘inside/
reverse side of garment’, then generalized to
‘reverse’. Tōdō and Mizukami, though, take
associated sense of here as ‘fold, crease’,
and consider that fabric woven with stripes or
other pattern and folds/creases was often used
for garment linings, hence ‘back, reverse side’.
Despite this divergence, all commentators associate
the graph with garment linings, i.e. ‘underside’.
YK1976:492; OT1968:906; SS1984:871;
TA1965:102; MS1995:v2:1168-9.
Mnemonic: CLOTHING MADE AT REAR OF
VILLAGE HAS GOOD LINING
1003
律
RITSU, RICHI
Bronze ; seal . Has 131 ‘go, walk, move’
law, control
and (originally, hand holding writing brush
L3
9 strokes
> ‘write’, see 159) as phonetic with associated
sense typically taken as ‘one’, giving ‘one path’,
HŌRITSUlaw
and by extension ‘rule, law’. Mizukami also
KIRITSUdiscipline
gives an alternative, i.e. proposed associated
RICHIGIintegrity
sense ‘put in order’, giving ‘well-ordered path’.
YK1976:494; KJ1970:55; MS1995:v1:484-5.
Mnemonic: MOVING HAND WRITES THE LAW
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