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L1
恵
10
KEI, E, megumu/mi
blessing, favor,
kindness
strokes
KEIYObestowal
CHIEwisdom
megumibukaibenevolent
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Has 164
‘heart/mind’, and 叀 (‘spindle’ [orig. pictograph])
1260
啓
KEI
open, enlighten
L1
11 strokes
KEIHATSUenlightenment
KEIJIrevelation
HEIKEIDear Sir/Madam
OBI ; bronze ; seal . One view has /
‘hand holding stick’ 112, with 启 as phonetic
with associated sense ‘open’, thus ‘cause to
open; open’ (Katō); this seems based only on
certain bronze and the seal forms, but not
OBI equivalents. None of the OBI equivalents
for (as listed by Mizukami) has ; all have
as phonetic with associated sense ‘give charity,
bestow’, thus ‘give (food, etc.) to others’.
Another analysis takes 叀 as phonetic with
associated sense ‘round, surround’, thus ‘a heart
which embraces feelings of others’ (Tōdō).
GY2008:578; MS1995:v1:514-5; KJ1970:352-3;
TA1965:712-5. Take upper part as 35 ‘ten’ and
63 ‘fields’.
Mnemonic: KIND-HEARTED PERSON BLESSED
WITH TEN FIELDS
2003 ‘hand’, in some cases combining with
just 120 ‘door’ to give ‘open a door’, taken as
simplest early form of . Most OBI occurrences
add 22 ‘opening’, ‘entrance’, thus ‘open door
with hand’ (Mizukami). Ogawa, though, takes
as having associated sense ‘teach’ to give
figurative meaning ‘teach and enlighten others’;
this corresponds to the extended sense. Note:
启 has / ‘door’, with ‘mouth, opening’
as phonetic with associated sense ‘open’, thus
‘open verbally/by hand’ (Mizukami). KJ1970:348;
MS1995:v1;232-3,218-9; OT1968:184.
Mnemonic: OPENING DOORS IS A WAY TO
ENLIGHTENMENT
1261
掲
KEI, kakageru
hoist, display, print
L1
11 strokes
KEIJIBANnotice board
ZENKEIaforementioned
KEIYŌ hoisting
1262
渓
KEI, tani
valley, gorge
L1
11 strokes
KEIKOKUvalley, gorge
SEKKEIsnowy valley
KEIRYŪ mountain stream
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has34 ‘hand’,
and (see 1048) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘hold up high in hand, thus ‘hold
up high’. ‘Display, print’ are extended senses.
KJ1970:904; TA1965:583-7; OT1968:417. Take
66 ‘sun’, sitting person, and cover.
Mnemonic: MAN SITS UNDER HOISTED
COVER FROM SUN, DISPLAYING HAND
Seal () ; a late post-Shuowen graph; traditional
. Traditional form has 42 ‘water’,
with (originally, ‘bound slave’: see Note
below) as phonetic with associated sense
‘caught, entangled’, taken in one view as giving
‘mountain stream with (seemingly) no way
out’, and by extension ‘twisting and turning
mountain stream’ (Ogawa). Gu, in contrast,
takes ‘mountain valley/gully’ as the original
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