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1360
L1
痕
11
KON, ato
vestige, scar, mark,
traces
strokes
KONSEKItraces, vestiges
KEKKONbloodstain
DANKON bullet hole
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 404
‘illness’ (originally, person lying down on bed),
and 281 (originally, ‘stop and stare’, ‘be
antagonistic’, q.v.) as phonetic with associated
sense taken as either i] place which is hardened’
(Ogawa), or ii] ‘steadily remain’ (Tōdō),
either way giving overall sense ‘birthmark,
scar’. DJ2009:v2:610; OT1968:679; TA1965:707.
Mnemonic: ILLNESS LEAVES ITS MARK, AND
SOME STOP AND STARE AT IT
1361
紺
KON
dark blue, dye
L1
11 strokes
KONirodark blue
KONyadyer
SHIKONbluish purple
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 29
‘thread’, and 1139 (‘sweet’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘including red’ (Katō).
Shuowen explains as ‘dark blue tinged with
red’.KJ1970:223; DJ2009:v3:1063.
Mnemonic: THREADS DYED A SWEET DARK
BLUE
1362
魂
KON, tama, tamashii
soul, spirit
L1
14 strokes
REIKONsoul
SHŌKONcommercial spirit
tamageru*be shocked
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 1179
‘soul, spirit, ghost’ (Schuessler has ‘originally:
the ghost of a deceased who has returned to
1363
墾
KON
cultivate, reclaim
L1
16 strokes
KAIKONreclamation
KONDENopened fields
MIKAIKONuncultivated
Seal ; late graph (later version of Shuowen).
Has 64 ‘earth, ground’, and 貇 as phonetic;
貇 (see Note below) is variant of 豤 (CO, ‘boar
bites’). Associated sense of 豤 / 貇 is taken as i]
‘cut down, cut’, giving ‘open up land’ (for cultivation;
Ogawa), or ii] ‘clay which is hard to dig up’,
giving ‘land extremely hard to dig up’ (Katō), or
haunt [terrorize] the living’), and 83 ‘cloud’
(later written , also NJK for ‘speak, say’) as
semantic and phonetic. Shirakawa suggests
that in ancient times it was probably thought
that a person’s soul was like a hovering cloud.
OT1968:1140; GY2008:1539; AS2007:267;
SS1984:329.
Mnemonic: IT IS SAID THAT ONE’S SPIRIT IS
CLOUD-LIKE
iii] ‘boar bites/digs down’, giving ‘dig down into
the ground’ like a boar’ (Shirakawa). Shirakawa’s
interpretation has some persuasiveness. ‘Cultivate/reclaim
(land)’ is the extended sense. Note:
, one of a small number of determinatives for
wild animals (e.g. as in NJK HYŌ ‘leopard’) is
based on a pictograph originally depicting a
beast with arched back ready to pounce on its
prey. OT1968:226,950; KJ1970:412; SS1984:329;
MS1995:v2:1226-7. Suggest using top right element
281 ‘stop and stare’.
Mnemonic: STOP AND STARE AT BOAR
DIGGING IN SOIL AS IF CULTIVATING IT
404 The Remaining 1130 Characters