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determinatives (540 in total) there are a quite
remarkably frequent number relating to water
and flood(/s). One may surmise that there
was serious flooding around that time, even
beyond China’s borders, as recorded in documentation
in other countries. OT1968:572;
TA1965:231,316.
Mnemonic: WHEN WATERS COME TOGETHER,
YOU HAVE A VAST FLOOD
1329
L2
荒
KŌ, arai, areru/rasu
rough, wild, waste
9 strokes
KŌTENwild weather
areCHIwasteland
aranami rough sea
Bronze ; seal . Has 53 ‘plants’, and CO
巟 (‘watery expanse’; see Note) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘cover completely’, thus
‘vegetation/weeds cover everything’; ‘become
wild/desolate’ is an extended sense. Note: 巟 is
made up of (variant of 50 ‘river’), and
985 (‘die, lose’) as phonetic with an associated
sense range ‘completely hidden; distant; extensive
and barren’, thus overall sense ‘watery
expanse’, with extended senses ‘big river’, ‘overflow’
(Mizukami). MS1995:v2:1114-6,v1: 424-5;
OT1968:851; GY2008:791-2.
Mnemonic: RIVER AND DEAD GRASS IN WILD
WASTELAND
1330
郊
KŌ
suburbs
L2
9 strokes
KŌGAIsuburbs
KINKŌsuburbs
KŌYA suburban fields
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 376
(‘village’), and 128 ‘mix/cross/exchange’
as phonetic with associated sense taken as i]
‘cross paths’, thus ‘outskirts (of city)’ (Tōdō); or
ii] ‘fire festival’, giving ‘place outside city walls
to conduct fire festival’ (Ogawa); or iii] ‘having
a common boundary’ (Gu). Gu follows Shuowen
definition of as originally denoting areas
within 100 li of the capital. TA1965:270;
OT1968:1019; GY2008:696.
Mnemonic: VILLAGE MIXES WITH SUBURBS
1331
香
KŌ, ka, kaori/ru
fragrance, incense
L1
9 strokes
KŌSUIperfume
KŌKIscent, fragrance
irokafemale charms
OBI ; seal . Usually taken as 87 ‘grain’
(as abbrev for NJK ‘millet’), over 1139
‘sweet;’ thus ‘sweet aroma of millet’, with
66 ‘sun’ taken as variant of (e.g. Ogawa).
However, OBI forms haveover
22 ‘mouth’, thus ‘fragrance from millet in
mouth’, or ‘wafting aroma of cooked millet’
(based partly on word-family association;
Mizukami). Gu gives a different view
of OBI form, taking as ‘bowl/container’.
OBI forms of and are close in shape,
and confusable, with no bronze forms
for . MS1995:v2:1464-5,1510-11,864-6;
OT1968:1121; KJ1970:278; GY2008:873.
Mnemonic: SUN BRINGS OUT FRAGRANCE OF
GRAIN PLANTS
The Remaining 1130 Characters 395