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1616
繕
ZEN, tsukurou
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 29
repair, mend
‘thread’, and 929 ‘good’ taken in one view
L1
18 strokes
as semantic and phonetic, giving ‘make good
with thread, repair’ (Katō); originally, no
SHŪZENrepair(s)
doubt, with reference to clothing, but then
SHŪZENKŌrepairman
in a broader sense. Tōdō, in contrast, takes
tsukuroikazaru hide error here as phonetic with associated sense
‘more than ample’, giving ‘make good without
skimping’. KJ1970:635; TA1965:528.
Mnemonic: MEND WITH GOOD THREAD
1617
狙
SO, nerau
aim
L1
8 strokes
SOGEKIshooting, sniping
neraidokoroobjective
akisunerai sneak thief
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists of
19 ‘dog’, and 1135 (‘furthermore’) as
phonetic. The original meaning appears to
have already been uncertain at the time when
Shuowen was compiled, as that work explains it
as referring to a type of monkey or possibly
dog; associated sense of the phonetic is unclear.
Gu takes as meaning a type of monkey
which would lie in wait and then attack humans,
and so ‘lie in wait’ is treated as an extended
sense; this interpretation, though, is only tentative.
Uncertain, therefore, whether ‘aim’ is an
extended sense or a loan usage. DJ2009:v3:799;
GY2008:684.
Mnemonic: FURTHERMORE, WE AIM AT DOGS
1618
阻
SO, habamu
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 262
obstruct, hinder
() ‘hill, mound’, and 1135 (‘furthermore’;
L1
8 strokes
originally, possibly a pictograph of a layered
object such as a tomb built with multiple layers
SOSHIhindrance
of earth, or a cairn) as phonetic with associated
SOGAIobstruction
sense ‘pile up’, giving ‘mountains piled up high
KENSO na steep
on top of one another’ (Ogawa says ‘mountain
road zigzags steeply’); by extension, ‘separate,
obstruct’. KJ1970:640-41; TA1965:364-6;
OT1968:1065.
Mnemonic: FURTHERMORE, A MOUND CAN
OBSTRUCT AND HINDER
1619
租
SO
levy, tithe
L1
10 strokes
SOZEItaxes, rates
SOSHAKUlease
SOSHAKKEN leasehold
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 87
‘grain’, and 1135 (‘furthermore’/[piled
objects]) as phonetic with associated sense
‘plough’, giving ‘grain from cultivating common
fields’, and by extension ‘grain to pay as
tribute’; later generalized to ‘levy’. OT1968:732;
KJ1970:642-3; SS1984:534.
Mnemonic: FURTHERMORE, THERE IS A LEVY
ON GRAIN
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