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1125
顎
GAKU, ago
jaw, chin
L1
18 strokes
GAKKOTSUjaw
agohigechin-beard
agohimechin-strap
A very late graph (Yupian). Has 103
‘head’, and CO (‘quarrel loudly’, ‘quarrel to
correct’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘stick out, project’, giving original meaning
‘high cheekbones’; Ogawa and Shirakawa
treat ‘jaw’ as a meaning peculiar to Japanese.
OT1968:1106,180; SS1984:112; KJ1970:126-7;
AS2007:224. We suggest taking as a ‘doubled’
variant of 297 ‘number, call, sign’.
Mnemonic: HEAD WITH DOUBLE CHINS AND
DOUBLE MOUTHS! ODD SIGNS
1126
L1
掛
11
kakeru/karu, kakari
connected, apply,
cost, hang, depend
strokes
kakaribitohanger-on
mikakeappearance
koshikakerusit
Seal () ; late graph (Shuowen). The older
form has 34 ‘hand’, and 461 (originally,
‘demarcating path between fields’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘hang, suspend’, thus
‘hang, suspend’. is considered to be a
popular equivalent. The alternative element
NJK (‘indicate response of the gods through
divination’) as phonetic has associated sense
‘link up’ (Katō). KJ1970:323,137-8; OT1968:417;
DJ2009:v3:1001; SS1984:77. Suggest taking
as double ‘earth’ 64 and as a ‘crack’ (see
96 ).
Mnemonic: CRACKED HAND IS CONNECTED
WITH DOUBLE LOADS OF EARTH
1127
L1
潟
kata, SEKI
beach, lagoon
15 strokes
higatatidal flat
SEKIKOlagoon
NiigataSHINiigata City
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 42 ‘water’,
and (CO; originally a pictograph denoting a
type of bird [Mizukami, Gu, Ogawa]; Shirakawa
interprets – less convincingly – as ‘shoes’) as
1128
括
KATSU, kukuru
bind, wrap, fasten
L1
9 strokes
IKKATSU(en) bloc
KAKKOparentheses
HŌKATSUTEKIblanket-
phonetic with associated sense taken either as
i] ‘retreat, draw back’, giving ‘beach at ebb tide’
(Shirakawa), or ii] ‘merge into’, giving ‘ground
where salt is left as residue’, i.e. ‘land on the
seashore’ (Ogawa). In Japanese only, used in the
extended senses ‘lagoon, inlet’. GY2008:1456;
MS1995:v2:1094-5; OT1968:608,835;
SS1984:507,509. Suggest taking as variant of
bird 190 (with big claws).
Mnemonic: ODD BIRD WITH BIG CLAWS SEEN
ON WATERS OF LAGOON
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 34
‘hand’, and 755 ‘tongue’, but note that is
a later regularized shape for what at the seal
script stage was something different, interpreted
by Katō and Tōdō as meaning ‘close the
mouth’. The element just described, functioning
here as semantic and phonetic (with sense
generalized to ‘close’) then combines with
to give ‘close with the hands’, and hence ‘fasten,
bind’. KJ1970:197-8; TA1965:624-9; OT1968:411.
Mnemonic: HAND BINDS TONGUE
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