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1091
瓦
GA, kawara, GURAMU
tile, gram
L1
5 strokes
kawarayatiler
RENGAbrick
onigawaragargoyle
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Originally a
pictograph; the simple shape is interpreted as
a curved earthenware container or utensil, or
a curved roof tile. ‘(Roof) tile’ tends to be taken
as extended sense (Ogawa, Schuessler), though
Shirakawa treats this as orig. meaning. Also
used for ‘gram’ (in Japanese only). OT1968:663;
TA1965:618; AS2007:222-3; SS1984:82.
Mnemonic: FANCY CURVED TILE HAS A SPOT
IN THE MIDDLE
1092
雅
GA
elegance, ‘taste’
L1
13 strokes
YŪGAelegance
GAGŌpen-name
GASHUartistry
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 324
‘short-tailed bird, bird’, and 1090 (‘tusk,
interlocking pieces’ [here, five strokes]) as
1093
L1
餓
GA, ueru
starve
15 strokes
KIGAstarvation
GAKIhungry imp; ‘brat’
GASHIstarving to death
1094
介
KAI
mediate, shell
L1
4 strokes
KAINYŪintervention
KAIKAKUshell
SHŌKAIintroduction
OBI ; seal . Sometimes taken as 41 ‘person’,
with 70 ‘divide’ (Tōdō, Ogawa), but this
is based on the seal form and the Shuowen explanation
of same. However, OBI forms suggest
phonetic – purely onomatopoeic – denoting
‘crow, mountain crow’. stands to represent
the characteristic cawing sound made by such
birds. As Gu suggests, is no doubt a variant
way of writing NJK ‘crow’. At a later stage,
was borrowed for its sound value to write
another word meaning ‘elegant, refined’, now
its main meaning. OT1968:1077; SS1984:84;
GY2008:1410-11; KJ1985:650.
Mnemonic: BIRD WITH FANGS IS ELEGANT!?
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 163 ‘food,
eat’, and 833 (‘I/me’, originally ‘halberd’) as
phonetic with associated sense taken variously
as i] ‘wither’ (Katō), ii] ‘starve’ (Ogawa), or iii]
‘sharp, angular’ (Tōdō), but all giving essentially
the same overall basic meaning, i.e. ‘withered/
starving/angular body’, in other words ‘starving’.
KJ1970:142; OT1968:1117; TA1965:591.
Mnemonic: NEED FOOD – I’M STARVING!
a different interpretation is appropriate, and
they are taken as depicting a person wearing
armor. Meanings such as ‘act as mediator’, ‘seek’,
‘assist’ are probably loan usages, while ‘shell’ is
probably extended usage. MS1995:v1:40-41;
MR2007:227-8; KJ1970:143; TA1965:605;
OT1968:41. Suggest taking the current graph as
an arrowhead.
Mnemonic: SHELL-LIKE ARMOR PROTECTS
MEDIATOR FROM ARROWHEAD
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