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L1
邪
8
JA
wickedness, evil,
wrong, unjust
strokes
JADŌevil way, heterodoxy
MUJAKI (na)naïve(ty)
FŪJA/kaze*a cold
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has right-hand
component 376 ‘village, place where people
live’, and 1090 (‘fang, tusk’) as phonetic with
associated sense unknown; originally, used in
writing a place name. The sense ‘evil’ for is a
substitute usage in place of another graph 衺
(CO) originally meaning ‘diagonal component
on front of a Chinese gown’, and by extension
‘not straight, bent’; 衺 was gradually used
less, and was often employed in its place
in this extended sense (Qiu). QX2000:322;
OT1968:1018; GY2008:253-4; DJ2009:v2:682;
MS1995:v2:1314-15.
Mnemonic: FANGS ARE BARED IN VILLAGE OF
WICKEDNESS
1434
蛇
JA, DA, hebi
snake, serpent
L1
11 strokes
JAguchifaucet, tap
DAKŌmeander, zig-zag
hebikawasnakeskin
Bronze () ; seal forms , . Originally
pictograph of snake with large head, likely
a cobra. Later borrowed for convenience to
write a separate homophonous word meaning
‘others’, 60 ‘insect, worm, snake’ being
added at seal stage to indicate ‘snake’. Entry
heading in Shuowen has , with noted
in text as variant. GY2008:1248; OT1968:885;
MS1995:v2:358-9; DJ2009:v3:1106;
QX:2000:226. Take as sitting person under
roof.
Mnemonic: PERSON SITS UNDER ROOF, BUT
ON AN ‘INSECT’ – NO, IT’S A SNAKE!
1435
L1
酌
10
SHAKU, kumu
serve wine, drink,
ladle, consider
strokes
SHAKUFUwaitress
BANSHAKUnightcap
SHAKURYŌconsideration
1436
釈
SHAKU, tomu
explain, release
L1
11 strokes
KAISHAKUinterpretation
SHAKUHŌrelease
SHAKUMEIexplanation
Bronze ; seal . Has ‘wine’ 318 (wine
jar with lid), and ‘ladle; unit of measure’
(dropped from Jōyō kanji in 2010) as semantic
and phonetic, thus ‘ladle out, draw out’;
extended to ‘measure, consider’. SS1984:396;
OT1968:1025; MS1995:v2:1344-5,v1:146-7.
Mnemonic: CONSIDER DRINKING WINE
SERVED BY LADLE
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
form: . Widely taken as 215 (hand holding
seeds), with (‘watch criminals, espy’;
see Note below) as phonetic with associated
sense taken as i] ‘distinguish, discriminate’
(Mizukami, Katō), thus ‘put in order what
has been divided up’, or ii] ‘divide’, thus
‘divide seeds’, extended to ‘release’ (Ogawa).
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