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1079
華
KA, GE, hana
flower, showy, China
L1
10 strokes
KABIsplendor, color
CHŪKA-Chinese-
hanabanashiibrilliant
Bronze ; seal . Originally pictograph of vegetation
growing luxuriantly, meaning ‘blossoms
of plants/trees’. Bronze form has ‘blossoms
begin to open’, taken by both Mizukami and Katō
1080
菓
KA
cake, candy, fruit
L2
11 strokes
KASHIcandy, cake
BEIKArice crackers
mizugashifruit
Late post-Shuowen graph. Has 454 ‘fruit;
result’, and 53 ‘plant, vegetation’ added. It
is not clear that and ever represented
two separate words in early Chinese; Qiu treats
as original way of writing . Seal form has
with () 53 ‘plants, vegetation’. Qiu says element
is a corrupted form of that appeared
from clerical script onwards. Qiu also says that
9 ‘flower, blossom’ evolved through substitution
based on its sound value of 258 ‘change’ for
in the graph . MS1995:v1:78-9; KJ1970:314;
KJ1970:314-5; QX2000:336-7; SS1984:76-7. Take
as ‘seven-leaved’ (strokes) plant.
Mnemonic: SHOWY CHINESE PLANT HAS
SEVEN STROKE-LIKE LEAVES
as simply an expanded version of , both
meaning ‘fruit’. (A similar example given by Qiu
is ‘garden’, having same meaning as 84
‘garden’). In modern Japanese, both graphs
share sense ‘fruit’, but only is used for ‘confectionery/cakes’.
AS2007:269; GY2008:626-7;
QX2000:228,181-2. Take as ‘tree’ 73 and
as ‘field’ 63.
Mnemonic: TREE PLANTED IN FIELD
PRODUCES FRUIT – AND CAKES!
1081
L1
渦
KA, uzu
whirlpool, eddy
12 strokes
uzumakieddy, vortex
uzuSENspiral line
KACHŪmaelstrom
Late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 42 water,
and 659 (‘distorted mouth’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as ‘hole/cavity, dipping
1082
嫁
KA, yome, totsugu
marry, bride
L1
13 strokes
hanayomebride
yomeirimarriage, wedding
SAIKAremarriage
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 37
‘woman’, and 89 ‘house, family’; is taken
here as i] semantic and phonetic, giving ‘a
woman gains a house/family to settle down
in’ (Ogawa), or as ii] phonetic with associated
down, distorted’, giving overall meaning ‘water
dips down’, i.e. ‘eddy, whirlpool’. Note: has
22 ‘mouth, cavity’, with 冎 as phonetic with associated
sense ‘slanted, distorted’, thus ‘distorted
mouth’ (after a seizure [Katō]). OT1968:594;
KJ1970:311-2; TA1965:628; SS1984:78. Take
as ‘topless tower’.
Mnemonic: WATER COLLECTS IN TOPLESS
TOWER, CAUSING WHIRLPOOL
sense ‘dressed up’, giving ‘woman who is
dressed up’ (Katō), in either case giving ‘bride,
go as a bride’. Tōdō includes in a word-family
meaning ‘cover something underneath’; this
may be taken as in broad agreement with Katō’s
analysis of the phonetic. Tōdō also regards
as representing a word probably derived
from that underlying , a view which is supported
by Schuessler. OT1968:261; KJ1970:125;
TA1965:381-3; AS2007:300-01.
Mnemonic: WOMAN IN HOUSE IS MARRIED
BRIDE
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