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患
KAN, wazurau
disease, ill, suffer
L1
11 strokes
KANJApatient
KANBUdiseased part
nagawazurailong illness
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). ‘heart, mind’
164, with NJK ‘skewer’ (originally, depicting
shells [as currency] pierced through middle
and arranged on string), taken as phonetic with
associated sense ‘be in distress’, giving ‘be troubled,
suffer’ (Mizukami, Ogawa), though Tōdō,
by contrast, takes literally as ‘pierce the heart’,
and regards ‘troubled’ as an extended sense.
MS1995:v1:508-10; OT1968:372,22; TA1965:642;
BK1957:63-4.
Mnemonic: SKEWER THROUGH THE HEART
CAUSES SUFFERING
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L1
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貫
11
KAN, tsuranuku
pierce, attain, old
weight (3.75kg)
strokes
KANTSŪpenetration
JŪKANtraverse
IKKANconsistency; 3.75kg
Bronze ; seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has
10 ‘shell (currency)’, with CO ‘pierce’ (taken as
originally showing either pierced shell[s] with
string through [Tōdō; in his view, the original
way of writing ], or a shield [Ogawa]), thus
1149
L1
喚
12
KAN, wameku
shout, yell, scream,
shriek
strokes
KANMONlegal summons
KYŌKANa cry
wamekigoescream, yell
Seal ; late graph (later version of Shuowen).
Has 22 ‘mouth; speak’, and CO (taken as
堪
KAN, TAN, taeru
endure, withstand
12 strokes
KANNINpatience
TANNŌskill
taegataiunendurable
‘pierced shield-like shell currency with string
through’, with ‘pierce, penetrate’ as an extended
sense (Tōdō). Katō also takes as ‘shell currency’,
and as phonetic with associated
sense ‘pierce’. Note: as element in is not
to be confused with similar-shaped separate
graph 222 ‘mother’; the two have more
contrastive shapes in early stages of the script.
MS1995:v1:718-9; GY2008:768-9; TA1965:640-
42. For mnemonic, suggest take as .
Mnemonic: MOTHER PIERCED BY SHARP
SHELL
‘menstrual soiling’ [Katō], or ‘give birth’ [Shirakawa,
Tōdō]) as phonetic with associated
sense taken either as i] ‘wail’, giving ‘wail, shout’
(Katō), or ii] ‘bring together’, giving ‘shout
together/collectively’ (Tōdō). MS1995:v1:302;
KJ1970:332-333; SS1984:120; TA1965:630,647;
OT1968:188. Take as bent figure, thighs,
56 ‘big’, ‘yell’.
Mnemonic: BENT WOMAN WITH BIG THIGHS
GIVES BIRTH AND YELLS
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 64
‘ground’, and 1552 (now ‘extreme’, originally
‘sexual relations’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘stick out’, giving ‘ground which sticks
out’, ‘raised ground’. The later sense ‘endure’
now predominates for this graph, Katō suggesting
it is a borrowed meaning based on
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