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THE REMAINING 1130 CHARACTERS
1007
L1
亜
A
next, sub-, Asia
7 strokes
ANETTAIsubtropics
ŌAEurasia
ARYŪfollower
OBI ; seal ; traditional . Originally showing
floor plan of pit dwelling in ancient China
with entrances on the four sides, each linked
to a separate room/space (in northern China,
according to Mizukami). Misinterpreted in early
times as showing hunchbacks (as for example
in Shuowen), leading to sense ‘inferior’, though
in fact this sense is a loan usage, as is ‘come
after, next’. Also used for ‘Asia’. MS1995:v1:32-3;
KJ1970:509; OT1968:35.
Mnemonic: THE NEXT FLOOR PLAN, FROM
ASIA, IS SUB-STANDARD
1008
哀
AI, aware/remu
Bronze ; seal . Has 22 ‘mouth, speak
sorry, pity
words’, and 444 (‘garment’) as phonetic
L1
9 strokes
with associated sense ‘sad’, giving ‘wail, lament’.
MS1995:v1:224-6; KJ1970:1; OT1968:179;
HIAIsadness
AS2007:149.
AIKAdirge, elegy
Mnemonic: MOUTH WAILS, CLOTHED IN
mono no awarepathos
SORROW
1009
L1
挨
AI
push open (but used
only in greeting
[aisatsu])
10 strokes
AISATSUgreeting
BUAISATSUimpoliteness
AISATSUJŌwritten notice
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Limited use.
Has 34 hand, with , orig meaning unclear
1010
曖
AI
dark, not clear
L1
17 strokes
AIMAI navague
AIMAIsavagueness
AIMAIyabawdy-house
(Tōdō suggests may be original way of writing
848 ‘doubt’) but borrowed in early Chinese
to represent a grammatical function word.
is treated in Shuowen as having a phonetic
function in , giving overall sense ‘hit on back,
strike from behind’. Use of in ‘greeting’
is loan usage, only in Japanese; in modern Chinese,
core meaning of is ‘suffer’. TA1965:135-
7; SS1984:7; DJ2009:v3:998. Take as nose and
145 as ‘arrow’.
Mnemonic: HAND PUSHES ARROW UP NOSE
BY WAY OF GREETING!
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Limited usage,
usually linked with 1999 ‘dark’. It has
66 ‘sun’, and 441 (‘love’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘darken, be cloudy’, giving
‘dark’. It is somewhat ironic that the combined
elements of ‘love’ (albeit phonetically) and ‘sun’
should produce a meaning ‘dark’/ ‘not clear’.
OT1968:475; SS1984:8.
Mnemonic: IT IS NOT CLEAR AS TO WHY
SUN-LOVERS ARE IN THE DARK
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