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ten with a pictograph showing two strings
of shell currency; this led to extended senses
such as ‘pair; cluster together’, though these
have become defunct in modern times.
TA1965:155; OT1968:513; MS1995:v1:636-8.
Take the two shells as 18 ‘months’.
Mnemonic: TAKE TWO MONTHS TO PUT UP
WOODEN BOOKSHELVES!
1685
誰
dare, tare, SUI
who?
L1
15 strokes
SUIKAWho goes there!?
darekaremany people
taresoreMr So-and-so
Bronze ; seal . Has 118 ‘words; speak’,
and 324 (‘short-tailed bird, bird’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘this’ or ‘who?’,
giving ‘who?’ or ‘anyone, someone’. In modern
Japanese, ‘who?’ only. MS1995:v2:1202-03;
WD1974:640-41.
Mnemonic: WHO OWNS THAT TALKING BIRD?
1686
丹
TAN, ni
red, red earth, sincere
L1
4 strokes
TANNENdiligence
TANSEIassiduity
ninuripainted red
1687
旦
TAN, DAN
dawn, morning
L1
5 strokes
TANSEKIday and night
DANNAmaster, husband
GANTANNew Year’s Day
OBI ; seal . OBI through to seal stages
depict a pit, with a mark in the middle which
is taken to represent an excavated red substance,
specifically vermilion ore. The shift
towards the block script shape can be seen
in some clerical script occurrences. ‘Sincerity’
is a very minor meaning, probably borrowed.
MS1995:v1:14-16; OT1968:23; KJ1970:682-3;
SK1984:15. We suggest using 1450 ‘boat’.
Mnemonic: ONLY HALF THE BOAT IS RED
OBI ; seal . OBI and bronze occurrences
of vary to some extent, but are taken as
depicting the sun 66 rising out of cloud,
or reflected in the sea. The seal form changes
to show the sun above a line representing
the horizon. Hence the meaning ‘dawn, early
morning’. MS1995:v1:608-9; OT1968:459.
Mnemonic: SUN RISES AT DAWN OVER THE
HORIZON
1688
L1
胆
9
TAN, kimo
gall-bladder, liver,
courage
strokes
TANNŌgall-bladder
TANSEKIgallstone
RAKUTANdiscouragement
Seal () ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
; is a later, post-Shuowen graph.
consists of /209 ‘flesh, meat; body’,
with (CO; ‘talkative’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken in one view as ‘jarshaped’,
giving ‘gall-bladder’ (Katō), though
‘bag-shaped’ might be a better description
(and see Note below). Alternatively, Ogawa
takes the associated sense as ‘fill’, likewise
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