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1712
L1
鋳
CHŪ, iru
cast, found, mint
15 strokes
CHŪZŌcasting
CHŪTETSU cast iron
igata mold
Seal ; traditional . Bronze forms vary
somewhat, and all are different in structure
from the seal form. The bronze form has
hands – or more probably pincers – holding
a container upside down over fire and
metal, and so readily understood as ‘cast’
(Shirakawa); also includes an element which
appears to be phonetic with associated sense
‘red’ (as of molten metal) (Katō).The seal form
consists of 16 ‘metal’, with (traditional
form of 1445 ‘long life’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as i] ‘melt’, giving
‘melt and pour metal’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘extend
everywhere’, giving ‘pour molten metal everywhere
within a mold’ (Tōdō); either way, the
overall meaning is ‘cast metal’. KJ1970:697;
QX2000:89; AS2007:627; SS1984:596;
OT1968:1044; TA1965:179-83.
Mnemonic: METAL SHOULD HAVE A LONG
LIFE IF CAST IN FOUNDRY
1713
駐
CHŪ
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 210
stop, stay
‘horse’, and 315 (‘master; main’) as phonetic
L2
15 strokes
with associated sense ‘stand still, stay’, giving
‘horse stands still’; sense then generalized
CHŪSHAparking
to ‘stop, stay’. OT1968:1125; TA1965:281-4;
CHŪZAI residence, stay
GY2008:758-9.
CHŪNICHI resident in Japan
Mnemonic: MASTER STOPS HORSE AND STAYS
1714
弔
CHŪ, tomurau
mourn
L1
4 strokes
KEICHŌcondolence
CHŌMONsympathy call
CHŌBUN funeral address
OBI ; seal . Views vary: in one, is seen as
a pictograph originally, taken by one scholar
as showing a snake clinging to a person
(Ogawa), but by another as a vine hanging
down from a pole (Tōdō). Katō, by contrast,
takes as 41 ‘person’, combined with
60 ‘insect’ (or ‘snake’ 1434/ 184) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘twisted’, thus
‘person with twisted body’, or ‘shrink, small’,
giving ‘dwarf’. is seen quite differently by
Shirakawa based on some bronze forms, as
showing string attached to arrow, signifying
‘arrow with string attached for catching birds’,
and seen as the ancestral form of ‘uncle’
1466, not of ; this more traditional view is,
however, dismissed by Mizukami and Katō.
Tōdō takes ‘deities bestow favor’ as extended
sense from ‘hang down’, and ‘sympathize
with others, mourn’ as a further extension,
while Katō sees latter meaning as loan use of
. OT1968:338; TA1965:197-9; SS1984:600;
MS1995:v1:466-8,24-5.
Mnemonic: MOURN MAN CRUSHED LIKE
STICK BY TWISTING SNAKE
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