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1184
L1
毀
13
KI, kowasu/reru
break, damage,
destruction
strokes
KISONdamage, injury
KIKIdestruction
kowaremonofragile item
Bronze ; seal . Views vary. Gu takes as
‘person atop mound of earth’, with abbreviated
form of CO 毇 ‘pound rice’, thus ‘destroy’. Ogawa
agrees, but instead of he posits 64 ‘earth,
ground’, giving ‘break down clods of earth’,
and by extension ‘destroy’. Shirakawa differs,
proposing an etymology possibly related to
human sacrifice. SS1984:150; GY2008:1618;
OT1968:222. Take 170 ‘strike’, as hands,
as ‘sloping ground’ 64.
Mnemonic: STRIKING WITH HANDS ON
SLOPING GROUND IS DESTRUCTIVE
1185
L1
畿
KI
capital (place)
15 strokes
KINAIKyōto area
KINKIŌsaka-Kyōto
(no further compounds)
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 63 ‘field’
(here in more general sense ‘land, territory’),
and 1181 (‘how much, how many’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘near, almost’,
giving original meaning ‘territory close to the
capital (under direct control of the Emperor)’;
later, ‘the capital and environs’. DJ2009:v3:1130;
TA1965:695-7; QX2000:235; OT1968:674.
Mnemonic: HOW MANY FIELDS ARE THERE IN
THE CAPITAL AREA?
1186
輝
KI, kagayaku/kashii
shine, sparkle
L1
15 strokes
KŌKIluster, splendor
KISEKIpyroxene
kagayakilight
Seal . The seal form in Shuowen has 8 ‘fire’
as determinative, and the entry in that dictionary
defines the graph simply as ‘light’ ( 129).
The alternative form is analyzed as ,
with 490 (‘army, military’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘surround’, giving ‘light surrounds’.
came into use in Han times, then
became predominant. SS1984:155; OT1968:985;
TA1965:712-21.
Mnemonic: ARMY PROVIDES SHINING LIGHT
1187
騎
KI
rider
L1
18 strokes
KISHIknight, rider
KIHEIcavalry
IKKIuchisingle combat
Seal . Has 210 ‘horse’, and 1174
(‘strange’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘put on top, go up high’, giving ‘mount a
horse’. Mizukami lists a proposed bronze
equivalent. TA1965:583-6; OT1968:1127;
MS1995:v2:1470-71.
Mnemonic: RIDER ON STRANGE HORSE IS A
KNIGHT
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