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1114
垣
kaki
fence, hedge
L1
9 strokes
kakinefence, hedge
ikegakihedge
kaimamiru*peep
Bronze ; seal . Has 64 ‘earth, ground’,
and 924 (‘go round’) as semantic and
phonetic, giving ‘encircling earthen wall’; by
extension, ‘wall (made of various materials,
not necessarily earth), fence, hedge’. Note:
depicts a wall or fence; OBI equivalents
show an encircling shape with either one
line (perhaps representing an outer boundary,
as Tōdō suggests,) or none. OT1968:215;
MS1995:v1:268-9,30-31; TA1965:611-20;
SS1984:55. Suggest taking right-hand part as
‘two’ 65 and ‘day’66.
Mnemonic: IT TAKES TWO DAYS TO FENCE
OFF THE GROUND
1115
L1
柿
9
kaki, kokera, SHI, JI
persimmon, shingle
(roof)
strokes
tsurushigakidried persimmon
JUKUSHIripe persimmon
kokeraitashingle (roof)
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
form: . Has 73 ‘tree, wood’, and as phonetic
(associated sense unclear). OT1968:499;
SS1984:368; TA1965:770-76. Suggest taking
right hand part as 144 ‘city/market’.
Mnemonic: THERE’S A PERSIMMON TREE IN
THE MARKET
1116
核
KAKU
core, nucleus, nuclear
L1
10 strokes
KAKUSHINcore, kernel
KEKKAKUtuberculosis
KAKUHEIKInuclear weapon
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 73
‘wood, tree’, and 875 (‘wild animal’ [probably
a pig or boar]) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘enclose’, giving – in one analysis – ‘box/
crate made of wood/tree bark’; later borrowed
for ‘stone, kernel’. Another interpretation, found
in Erya, a very early Chinese encyclopaedic
dictionary, takes it as hard casings on a tree,
i.e. treats the original meaning as ‘stone (of
peach, etc.), kernel’. OT1968:502; KJ1970:143-4;
TA1965:132. We suggest taking as ‘broken/
snapped threads’ 29.
Mnemonic: TREES SNAPPED LIKE THREADS IN
NUCLEAR BLAST
1117
殻
KAKU, kara
shell, husk, crust
L1
11 strokes
kaigarasea shell
KŌKAKUcarapace, shell
CHIKAKUearth’s crust
OBI ; seal ; traditional . Has 170 ‘strike’
(originally hand holding stick or similar), with
left-hand 壳 which in one view represents a
hard, empty vessel such as a shell or horn or
bell suspended in mid-air, as a sounding device
(Mizukami). Another view takes it as a musical
instrument – again, probably a hard object – on
a stand ( ‘stand’ [originally a pictograph])
(Ogawa). Later, there was a semantic shift by
association to hard coverings, e.g. ‘shell, husk’
MS1995:v1:714-5; OT1968:546. Suggest taking
left side as 211 ‘sell’.
Mnemonic: STRIKE SOMEONE SELLING
SHELLS FOR A CRUST
The Remaining 1130 Characters 335