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tograph of a young plant putting out shoots
above ground and showing roots below,
giving the meaning ‘pointed shoot of a plant’,
and by extension, ‘beginning; edge’. This view
is set out in Mizukami, who also notes another
interpretation of this graph (put forward by
Tōdō) as representing edges of cloth hanging
down, but this is not convincing. QX2000:266;
MS1995:v2:1054-5; GY2008:1748; OT1968:747.
Take as ‘mountain’ 26 and as rake.
Mnemonic: RAKE STANDS UPRIGHT ON
EXTREME EDGE OF MOUNTAIN
1692
L1
綻
14
TAN, hokorobiru
be torn, rip, come
apart, unravel
strokes
HATANfailure, bankruptcy
hokorobiopen seam, rip
hokorobaserubreak into smile
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 29
‘thread’, and 371 (‘fix, establish’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken either as i]
‘appear on outside’, giving ‘be ripped and appear
on outside’ (referring to lining of a garment
becoming visible) (Tōdō), or ii] ‘be cut,
snap’, giving ‘be rent apart/ripped; unravel’
(Ogawa). Examples of are found in clerical
script onwards. TA1965:534-5; OT1968:782;
SK1984:571.
Mnemonic: FIXED THREADS CAN UNRAVEL
OR BE TORN
1693
鍛
TAN, kitaeru
forge, train
L1
17 strokes
TANKŌJOsmithy
TANRENforge, train
TANKINbeating gold
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 16
‘metal’, and 944 (‘step, grade’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘hit, strike’, giving ‘beat
and temper heated metal’. OT1968:1048;
GY2008:1723-4.
Mnemonic: FORGING METAL IS A STEP IN
ONE’S TRAINING
1694
L1
弾
DAN, hiku, hazumu,
tama, hajiku
bullet, spring, play,
bounce
12 strokes
DANYAKUammunition
DANRYOKUelasticity
hikiteplayer
OBI ; seal ; traditional . The OBI form
shows some variation, but more semanticallyexplicit
occurrences have a small object, taken
to be a stone for use as a projectile, inside a
bow. Seal form has 107 ‘bow’ and /569
(‘simple’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘round ball’, giving ‘bow to project stone missiles’;
by extension, ‘hit; pull bowstring; play
stringed instrument’. ‘Bounce’ and ‘spring’
would seem to be extended meanings.
MS1995:v1:472-3; OT1968:342; KJ1970:682.
Mnemonic: BULLET SPRINGS FROM SIMPLE
BOW!?
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