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1137
鎌
kama, REN
sickle
L1
18 strokes
kamaireharvesting
kamakubigooseneck (pipe)
KamakuraSHIKamakura City
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 16
‘metal’, and 1281 (now ‘combine’, but
originally showing hand holding two ‘grain
plants’: see 87) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘curved and sharp’, giving ‘sickle’, and
possibly also having a semantic relevance.
DJ2009:v3:1150; OT1968:1049; GY2008:1974.
Mnemonic: HAND HOLDS TWO GRAIN
PLANTS CUT WITH METAL SICKLE
1138
刈
karu, KAI, GAI
cut, shear, crop, reap
L1
4 strokes
kariirereaping, harvesting
karikomucut, clip, shear
kusakariKIlawn mower
1139
L2
甘
KAN, amai, amae,
amaeru, amayakasu
sweet, presume upon
someone
5 strokes
amazakesweet sake
KANGENsweet words
amaepresuming upon
OBI ; seal . The graph depicts something
being tasted in the mouth, and by
extension ‘good to eat’; the specific taste
‘sweet’ evolved as the dominant sense. A
graph which has changed in shape very little
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 198
‘knife, cut’, and CO ‘shears’ (considered to
be the original way of writing ) as semantic
and phonetic, giving ‘shears’; by extension,
‘cut grass, reap’. KJ1970:136-7; OT1968:110;
AS2007:568.
Mnemonic: CUT CROP WITH SHEARS AND
KNIFE
from the OBI stage. The meaning of ‘presume
upon’ is an extended meaning of being nice/
sweet to a senior person in return for their
future help in furthering one’s career or similar.
This ‘amae’ is said to be a feature unique
to Japan but this is incorrect, with many
cultures having the same basic presumption.
OT1968:664; MS1995:v2:864-6; KJ1970:208;
MR2007:309. Suggest take as something
being retained/ savored in an ‘odd mouth’
(variant of ‘mouth’ 22)
Mnemonic: SOMETHING KEPT IN THE MOUTH
MUST BE SWEET
1140
汗
KAN, ase, asebamu
sweat
L2
6 strokes
HAKKANsweating
KANGANshame
asemizuheavy sweat
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 42
‘water, liquid’, and 840 (‘weapon; dry’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘come out
to excess, pour out all over the place’, giving
‘sweat’. It does seem somewhat ironic to
have a character normally meaning ‘dry’ to
express ‘pour out’, and it may be better to
think of it in its earlier meaning as ‘weapon’.
KJ1970:203; OT1968:557; SS1984:117.
Mnemonic: USE DROPS OF SWEAT AS A
WEAPON!?
Or: DROPLETS OF SWEAT DRY UP
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