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1087
箇
KA, KO
item (counter)
L1
14 strokes
KAJŌgakiitemization
KASHOplace, point
IKKOone item
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has ‘bamboo’
58 and 501 ‘hard, solid’. Originally, used to
count lengths of bamboo, then later the connotation
‘bamboo’ was dropped, and employed
widely as a general counter. Often interchanged
with the counter 695. KJ1970:390-
91; AS2007:248; SS1984:80-81.
Mnemonic: IT’S HARD TO ITEMISE BAMBOO
1088
稼
KA, kasegu
work, earn money
L1
15 strokes
KAGYŌone’s trade
kasegitebreadwinner
tomokasegidual income
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 87 ‘grain
plant’, and 89 (‘house’) as phonetic with
associated sense as i] ‘good’, giving ‘grain which
is well-developed’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘cover over’,
giving ‘grain harvested and covered’ (Tōdō).
The meaning ‘work to earn money’ is extended.
OT1968:736; TA1965:383.
Mnemonic: HOUSE FULL OF GRAIN
INDICATES WORK AND MONEY EARNED
1089
蚊
ka, BUN
mosquito
L3
10 strokes
kabarifishing fly
kaya*mosquito net
kayarismudge fire
Seal ( 蟁 ) ; late graph (Shuowen). Seal form has
䖵 ‘insect’ (general term), and 619 (‘people’)
as phonetic purely for its onomatopoeic value
to represent the sound of a mosquito buzzing
in flight, and on the same basis was later
replaced by 72 ‘text’ with the double insect
䖵 reduced to one, 60. Several other variant
shapes were also used historically, but need
not concern us here. OT1968:885; SS1984:759;
GY2008:1048-9.
Mnemonic: TEXT DESCRIBES MOSQUITO AS
INSECT THAT GOES ‘BUN’
1090
L1
牙
GA, GE, kiba
tusk, fang
4 strokes
DOKUGApoison fangs
ZŌGEivory
SHIGAteeth
Bronze ; seal . The bronze forms are
typically taken as depicting curved interlocking
pieces of wood which made up part of
the circular outer rim of a wheel; the original
way of writing . Then, on the basis of the
interlocking nature of these pieces of wood
when put together, borrowed to represent
‘tusk, fang’. Shirakawa, in contrast, chooses
to interpret the bronze forms (onwards) as
representing from the outset tusks or fangs
coming together vertically. The bronze
forms are, though, more supportive of
the first analysis above. MS1995:v2:826-8;
KJ1970:134-6; OT1968:634; SS1984:82. Mnemonically
difficult but suggest taking graph
as a ‘peg’ (baby talk for ‘tooth’), with as
a support.
Mnemonic: WHEN YOUR ‘TOOTHY PEGS’
BECOME TUSKS, YOU NEED SUPPORT
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