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had a meaning ‘glisten’, which appears to have
been a loan usage. OT1968:561 MS1995:v2:784-5;
KJ1970:95. As with 1673, we suggest taking
as 41 ‘person’ with backpack.
Mnemonic: PERSON CARRIES BACKPACK
THROUGH WATERS OF MARSH
1675
L1
卓
TAKU
table, excel, high
8 strokes
SHOKUTAKUdining table
TAKKYŪtable tennis
TAKUETSUexcellence
Bronze ; seal . Interpretations vary. In one
view, the top element is taken as representing
a person with a withered leg, combined with
52 (‘quick, early’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘lame, cripple’, giving overall meaning of
‘lame, cripple’, and by extension ‘high’ on the
basis of one side of the person’s body being
higher than the other (Katō). The basis on the
shape for taking the top element as ‘lame, cripple’
seems quite tenuous, and in addition –
according to Mizukami – the proposed word
association ‘lame’ is based on a regional dialect
form in early Chinese. Accordingly, in another
analysis the top element is interpreted simply
as 41 ‘person’, and is taken as phonetic
with associated sense of ‘jump up (high)’, thus
giving ‘someone who is by far the best/outstanding’
(Ogawa, Tōdō). A note of caution is
sounded by Qiu, who considers that as yet it is
not possible to explain the structural composition
of this graph. In the meantime, ‘table’
is probably best regarded as a loan usage.
KJ1970:675; MS1995:v1:168-9; OT1968:139;
TA1965:247-8; QX2000:96. We suggest taking
the upper element of this graph, , as ‘cracks’
96, and 52 ‘early’.
Mnemonic: EXCELLENT HIGH-TABLE
CRACKED AT EARLY STAGE
1676
拓
TAKU
reclaim, clear, rub
L1
8 strokes
KAITAKUreclamation
TAKUSHOKUcolonizing
GYOTAKUfish print
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has34
‘hand’, and 47 (‘stone’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as i] ‘pick up’, giving
‘pick up with the hand’ (Katō), or ii] ‘gather
1677
L1
託
10
TAKU
request, commit,
entrust
strokes
ITAKUtrust, commission
TAKUSENoracle
TAKUSŌconsignment
in one place’, giving ‘gather things together
in one place’ (Tōdō), or iii] ‘split open’, giving
‘cut open’, with ‘open up, reclaim’ treated as
an extended sense (Ogawa). The first two
commentators, by contrast, consider ‘open
up, reclaim’ to be a loan usage. The minor
meaning ‘rub’ may be extended from ‘clear’.
KJ1970:613; TA1965:325-30; OT1968:408.
Mnemonic: HAND CLEARS STONES FROM
RECLAIMED LAND
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 118
‘words; speak’, and 乇 (CO; ‘plant seedling’
[originally, pictograph of a tiny plant with stem
having emerged up through the ground, and
root below]) as phonetic with associated sense
‘put together, gather together’, giving ‘make request’.
‘Entrust’ is considered to be an extended
sense. OT1968:921; GY2008:35; TA1965:330. We
suggest taking 乇 as ‘seven’ 32, plus top.
Mnemonic: COMMITTED SEVEN TOP WORDS
TO ENTRUSTED REQUEST
498 The Remaining 1130 Characters