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1064
欧
Ō
Europe
L2
8 strokes
ŌSHŪEurope
ŌBEIthe West
ŌSHIKANEustachian tube
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has 496, ‘open mouth, yawn; lack, be
missing’ (‘bend over’ is another meaning’),
with 282 (‘divide things up small’, small’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘vomit,
disgorge’, giving ‘open mouth and vomit’
(Katō, Ogawa). Alternatively, Tōdō takes as
‘bend over’, giving ‘bend over and vomit’. In
the early modern period, was employed for
its sound value and despite – or because of –
its negative sense (quite possibly a carry-over
from the Edo period, or from earlier Chinese
orthographic usage) to write Yōroppa
‘Europe’, a practice which has provided the
basis for using today as a convenient
one-graph writing in SJ compounds, meaning
‘Europe’. Modern form simplifies to ,
as in 282 (ward, section). MS1995:v1:700-1;
OT1968:545; KJ1970:3.
Mnemonic: SECTION OF EUROPE IS MISSING
1065
殴
Ō, naguru
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Has
hit, beat, assault 170 ‘hand holding stick or similar’ (Mizukami
L1
8 strokes
and Katō say ‘stick made of bound bamboo’),
and / 282 (‘divide things up small,
ŌDAblow, assault
small’) as phonetic with associated sense
nagurikomia raid, assault
naguriautrade blows
‘hit, strike’, giving ‘hit with stick (or similar
weapon)’. MS1995:v1:700-01,162-3; KJ1970:3;
OT1968:545. Take as ‘section’ 282.
Mnemonic: BEAT WITH A SECTION OF STICK
1066
翁
Ō, okina
old man, venerable
L1
10 strokes
RŌŌold man
SON’Ōvillage elder
Uda OkinaOld Man Uda
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 82 ‘wing,
feathers’, and 126 (‘public, fair’), sometimes
taken as phonetic with associated sense ‘head,
1067
奥
Ō, oku
(deep) inside
L2
12 strokes
okusokoinner depths
okusamawife (of another)
ŌGI/okuGImysteries
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 30 ‘roof,
building’, and ( ’scatter seed’ over ‘two
hands’), which has various interpretations. Katō
takes it as phonetic with associated sense ‘warm
neck’, giving ‘bird’s neck/head feathers’ (Ogawa,
Shirakawa). However, Shirakawa also notes that
seems to have been used as a loan graph for
‘old man’ from Han times, echoed by Schuessler
(‘old man; father’), who also links it to another
near-homophone in early Chinese meaning ‘male
of older generation, higher rank to whom respect
is due’. OT1968:801; SS1984:65; AS2007:515,255.
Mnemonic: VENERABLE OLD MAN RUFFLES
FEATHERS IN PUBLIC
under a covered interior’, but Tōdō rejects this
approach, arguing it is semantic in function (‘scatter
rice grains’), here meaning ‘things are stored
under cover’. Shirakawa’s analysis is ‘place (under
a roof) to offer up meat’. KJ1970:113; TA1965:227-
30; SS1984:67. ‘Inside’ is now the main meaning.
Take as 220 ‘rice’ under big roof, and 56 as
‘big’.
Mnemonic: INSIDE BIG-ROOFED BUILDING IS
BIG STORE OF RICE
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