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1106
L1
劾
8
GAI
investigate (a
wrong-doing)
strokes
DANGAIimpeachment
DANGAISHAdenunciator
GAISŌreporting offence
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 78
‘strength, effort’, and 875 (NJK, ‘wild animal’,
probably a boar or pig, but the OBI pictograph
too simple to interpret definitively) as phonetic
with associated sense taken as ‘investigate,
pursue’, giving ‘vigorously pursue, thoroughly
judge (a criminal)’. OT1968:126; KJ1970:149. We
suggest taking as ‘broken’ variant of ‘threads,
bindings’ 29.
Mnemonic: PUT EFFORT INTO
INVESTIGATING BROKEN THREADS
1107
崖
GAI, gake
cliff, precipice
L1
11 strokes
gakekuzurelandslide
DANGAIcliff, precipice
KENGAIoverhanging cliff
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 26
‘hill, mountain’, and , itself already an
independent graph (NJK) also meaning ‘cliff,
precipice’; Ogawa and Tōdō consider that the
element 1076 (‘ceremonial jade’) also has
a function in as phonetic with associated
sense ‘sloping’. TA1965:504-08; OT1968:304,149.
Suggest taking as ‘double’ the ground 64
with as cliff.
Mnemonic: IN MOUNTAINS, CLIMBING A
CLIFF IS LIKE DOUBLE THE GROUND
1108
涯
GAI
shore, edge
L1
11 strokes
SHŌGAIone’s life
SAIGAIlimits
TENGAIhorizon
1109
慨
GAI, nageku
lament, deplore
L1
13 strokes
GAITANlamentation
KANGAIdeep emotion
GAIZEN toindignantly
Seal ; a late graph (later version of Shuowen).
Has 42 ‘water’ and NJK ‘cliff, precipice’, giving
‘cliff at water’s edge’; ‘edge’ is an extended
sense. OT1968:585; SS1984:101. Suggest taking
as ‘raised earth’ 64.
Mnemonic: CLIFF OF RAISED EARTH STANDS
AT WATER’S EDGE
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
forms , . Has ‘heart, mind’ 164, and
//1177 (‘already’, q.v.) (originally, ‘eat
completely, eat one’s fill’) as phonetic with associated
sense taken either as ‘be blocked’, giving
‘one’s heart is blocked/stifled, lament’ (Ogawa,
Tōdō), or as ‘enraged and arrogant’, giving ‘be
enraged’ (Katō). In the latter analysis, ‘lament’
is presumably to be seen as a loan usage.
OT1968:383,458; TA1965:702-06; KJ1970:153.
Mnemonic: ALREADY HAVE FEELINGS OF LAMENT
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