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1678
L2
濯
TAKU
wash, rinse
17 strokes
SENTAKUwashing
SENTAKUKIwashing machine
SENTAKUmonolaundry
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Has
42 ‘water’, and (CO ‘pheasant’, from 82
‘wings’ and 324 ‘bird’) as phonetic with associated
sense taken as i] ‘hit, beat’, giving
‘beat fabric immersed in water’ (Ogawa), or
ii] ‘pull out; excel’, giving ‘wash garments (or
similar) by quickly pulling out of water’ (Mizukami,
Tōdō); thus, ‘wash, rinse’. OT1968:612;
MS1995:v2:786-7; GY2008:1770; TA1965:786-7.
Mnemonic: BIRD WASHES WINGS IN WATER
1679
諾
DAKU
consent, agree
L1
15 strokes
JUDAKUacceptance
SHŌDAKUconsent
KAIDAKUready consent
Bronze () ; seal () . Originally written
as 896 (‘young’), i.e. initially was
used to write words for both ‘young’ and
‘agree’ (near-homophones in early Chinese).
As this graph was later borrowed for other
words too, to indicate clearly the meaning
‘agree’ the determinative 118 ‘words,
speak’ was added, thus . Depending on
approach taken, has been taken in one
view as with ‘follow’ as semantic and
phonetic (Ogawa), or alternatively as with
just as phonetic with associated sense
‘soft, pliant’ (Mizukami, Katō), either way giving
‘agree’. Mizukami also lists proposed OBI
form. MS1995:v2:1208-9; 1112-3; KJ1970:676;
OT1968:935; AS2007:447-8; TA1965:357-8.
Mnemonic: AGREE WITH YOUNGSTER’S
WORDS, SO CONSENT
1680
濁
DAKU, nigoru/su
impure, turbid, voiced
L1
16 strokes
DAKURYŪturbid stream
DAKUONvoiced sound
nigoriemuddy creek
Seal . Has42 ‘water’, and (‘caterpillar;
Shu [name of ancient Chinese state]’; see Note
below) as phonetic with associated sense ‘dirty,
polluted’, thus ‘dirty water’. Ogawa follows
Shuowen, taking as original meaning river
name, but Katō sees ‘dirty water’ as probable
original meaning, later used to refer to dirty
river. Note: , originally in OBI as