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1055
煙
EN, kemuri, kemui
smoke, ill at ease
L2
13 strokes
ENTOTSUchimney
KIN’EN‘no smoking’
tabako*tobacco
OBI ( 垔 ) ; seal . Has 8 ‘fire’, and CO
垔 (originally ‘block’). OBI shows smoke from
incense burner, taken by Ogawa as ‘produce
smoke’; Mizukami takes as ‘smoke from incense
1056
L1
猿
EN, saru
monkey, ape
13 strokes
RUIJIN’ENanthropoid
YAENwild monkey
sarumaneyacopycat
Seal ( 蝯 ) ; late graph (Shuowen). The 6 th
century Yupian gives as the orthodox form
(main form) of this graph, and notes as a
popular form. Later prevailed and is listed
as the main form in Kangxi zidian. It has ,
burner covers and obscures things’, though the
latter seems speculative. Seal form is taken as
‘fire’, with 垔 as phonetic with associated sense
‘obstruct’, construed as ‘fire burns but air flow is
blocked and fire smoulders’. Tōdō takes associated
sense instead as ‘obscure, conceal’. In all of
the above, ‘smoke’ represents a derived sense.
OT1968:623; MS1995:v2:804-5; KJ1970:107. Suggest
take 垔 as 169 ‘west’ and 64 ‘ground’.
Mnemonic: FIRE IN THE WESTERN GROUND
PRODUCES SMOKE
the left-hand form of ‘dog’ 19 in compound
graphs, but often used in a wider sense as ‘animal’,
as here. In earlier form , 1053 is both
semantic and phonetic, meaning ‘pull, pull up’,
thus ‘animal which pulls itself up (in trees), i.e.
‘monkey’. 84 (‘long/flowing garment’) seems
to have replaced purely for its phonetic
function here. DY2009:v3:1098; ZY2009:v2:718;
SS1984:59; OT1968:901.
Mnemonic: ANIMAL WITH LONG GARMENT IS
A MONKEY, APING SOMEONE
1057
L1
鉛
EN, namari
lead (metal)
13 strokes
AENzinc
KOKUENgraphite
ENPITSUpencil
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 16 ‘metal’,
and 㕣 / 㕣 832 (‘cave/hole from which water
gushes forth’) as phonetic with associated
sense taken variously by scholars. Ogawa sees it
as ‘black tinged with blue’. Katō sees it as ‘white’,
maintaining that in ancient times lead and tin
(the latter a whitish alloy) were not well distinguished,
thus the association between lead and
white. However, Shuowen itself defines ‘lead’
and ‘tin’ contrastively, explaining ‘lead’ as ‘a
blue metal’, and NJK ‘tin’ as ‘a metal between
silver and lead’. OT1968:1038; KJ1970:106;
DJ2009:v3:1140-41. Take 㕣 as ‘out’ 70 and
‘holes’ 22.
Mnemonic: METAL TAKEN OUT OF HOLES IS LEAD
1058
L1
縁
15
EN, fuchi
edge, relations,
ties, fate
strokes
ENgawaverandah
fuchinuihemming
ENDANmarriage proposal
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional form
. Has 29 ‘thread’, and (‘boar’ or similar)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘edge’, giving
‘edge of fabric’. Tōdō includes in word-family
‘fall down’, thus ‘hanging edge of fabric’, Shirakawa
says ‘embroidered edge’. ‘Ties, relations’
are extended senses. OT1968:784; TA1965:539-
46; SS1984:60; DJ2009:v3:1067.
Mnemonic: BOAR TIED WITH THREAD IS
EDGY ABOUT FATE
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