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1458
蹴
SHŪ, keru, kekick
L1
19 strokes
SHŪKYŪfootball
ketaosukick down/over
tobikeri drop-kick
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 54 ‘leg,
foot’, and 900 (‘reach, proceed to; regarding’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘quick’, referring
to sudden actions made with the foot,
giving ‘stamp on, kick’. In Japanese usage, ‘kick’
predominates. SS1984:419; GY2008:1989;
OT1968:976. For , as in 900 we suggest taking
it as 110 ‘capital’ and as ‘crippled dog’
19.
Mnemonic: DOG IN CAPITAL IS CRIPPLED
AFTER LEG IS KICKED
1459
襲
SHŪ, osou
attack, inherit, pile up
L1
22 strokes
SHŪRAIattack
KŪSHŪair raid
SESHŪ heredity
OBI ; seal . Seal form has 444 ‘garment’,
and (traditional form of 2081
‘dragon’), the latter serving here as an abbreviation
of 龖 (‘flying dragons’) as a phonetic
with an associated sense ‘pile up, pile up
around’, giving ‘put covers over a corpse’, then
generalized to ‘cover’; by extension this came
to mean ‘conceal horses and men’, then by further
extension to make a surprise attack, then
generalized to simply ‘attack’. It is unclear as to
how it came to acquire the meaning of ‘inherit’,
though it may derive from funeral rites and
associated conventions. Katō sees the main
meaning as being the funeral clothing. He is
quite specific in asserting that the graph indi-
cates putting a kimono (or kimono-like clothing)
on a corpse by folding the left side under
the right side, presumably contrary to that of a
live person wearing a kimono. In Chinese there
is still a meaning for this graph of preparing
for burial. He treats as a phonetic with an
associated meaning of ‘wrong way’ or ‘back to
front’, and treats ‘attack’, ‘pile up’, and ‘inherit’
as all being loan usages. Schuessler points to a
link in early Chinese between a word for ‘habit,
custom’, and one for for ‘additional robe, cover’
which could explain ‘pile up’ and ‘inherit’.
OBI forms for the upper element () vary
considerably in shape; the greater part of the
OBI form given above seems to represent a
shape for ‘dragon’. Modern form of 1459
retains the traditional form for 2081 as
top element. KJ1985:550; MS1995:v2:1172-3;
QX2000:234; TA1965:798-9; OT1968:910;
AS2007:524.
Mnemonic: DRAGON ATTACKS PILE OF
INHERITED CLOTHES
1460
汁
JŪ, shiru
juice, soup, liquid
L1
5 strokes
KAJŪfruit juice
BOKUJŪIndia ink
misoshiru miso soup
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 42 ‘water’
or sometimes – as here – ‘liquid’, and 35
(‘ten’) as phonetic with associated sense typically
taken as ‘mix in’, giving ‘liquid with ingredients
mixed in’ (Shirakawa, Gu, Ogawa). Tōdō,
alternatively, prefers to interpret the associated
sense as ‘enter deep into’, giving ‘liquid which
has sunk to the bottom of a vessel’. SS1984:414;
GY2008:193; OT1968:557; TA1965:789-94.
Mnemonic: JUICE MIXED WITH TEN DROPS
OF WATER
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