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noted in Mizukami as an extended meaning).
OT1968:362-3; TA1965:611-21; KJ1970:91-g3;
MS1995:v1:290-91. Take as prone figure and
as ‘evening, night’ 46.
Mnemonic: PRONE FIGURE HAS A GRUDGE
IN HIS HEART AT NIGHT
1052
L1
宴
EN, utage
banquet, rest
10 strokes
ENKAIbanquet
ENRAKUrevelry
SHUENdrinking bout
Bronze ; seal . Has 30 ‘roof, building’,
with CO 妟 (‘woman flirting captivatingly’
[Katō]) as phonetic with associated
sense taken either as i] ‘charming, beautiful’,
thus ‘room made charming and beautiful
by a woman living there’ (Katō), or ii] ‘relax’,
thus ‘relax indoors’ (Ogawa); Schuessler also
says ‘be at ease, rest, feast’. Shirakawa sees
妟 as original form of , taking 66 ‘sun’
as jewel related to ritual. A more sexuallyorientated
analysis also seems possible
for this graph. Katō treats the meaning of
banquet as loan usage, though a case could
be made for an extended meaning, particularly
following Schuessler. KJ1970:99-100;
OT1968:277; MS1995:v1:372-3; SS1984:53-
4,56; AS2007:556.
Mnemonic: BANQUET PROVIDED BY WOMAN
IN RESTFUL SUNNY BUILDING
1053
L1
媛
12
EN, hime
princess, young noble
lady
strokes
SAIENtalented woman
EhimeKENEhime Prefecture
himeprincess
1054
援
EN
help
L1
12 strokes
ENJOassistance
ŌENbacking, aid
SEIENvocal support
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional form
has NJK as right-hand element (see 1053).
Has ‘hand’ 34, and (‘pull from above
and below’; OBI form shows an object being
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
form has NJK as right-hand element. Has
37 ‘woman’, and (now means ‘here’ but
originally ‘pull’; OBI form shows an object being
pulled from above by / 1739 ‘claw’ [here
‘hand’] and from below by 2003 ‘hand’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘beautiful,
graceful’, thus ‘beautiful woman’. OT1968:260;
MS1995:v2:818-20; SS1984:55-8; KJ1970:107-8;
DJ2009:v3:1021.
Mnemonic: PRINCESS-LIKE WOMAN PULLED
BY HANDS FROM ABOVE AND BELOW
pulled from above by / ‘claw’ 1739 [here
as ‘hand’] and from below by 2003 ‘hand’;
Katō takes the object as jade disc) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘pull’, giving ‘pull, pull
up’, and by extension ‘assist’. was originally
written , with added later for clarity so as
to distinguish the meaning from ‘jade disc
for pulling’, which was a symbol of authority.
OT1968:422; SS1984:58; KJ1970:107-8.
Mnemonic: THREE HANDS TO HELP
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