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1715
挑
CHŌ, idomu
challenge, defy
L1
9 strokes
CHŌHATSUprovocation
CHŌSENchallenge
CHŌSENTEKI aggressive
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 34
‘hand’, and 573 (‘sign, omen’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken in one view as
‘leap up’, thus ‘raise up high with hands’, giving
‘challenge, confront’ (Ogawa), presumably
taking raised hands as confrontational
posture. Alternatively, here is taken as
associated sense ‘divide in two, open’ (Tōdō),
though how this relates to ‘challenge’ is not
clear. OT1968:414; TA1965:243-4.
Mnemonic: RAISED HANDS ARE A SIGN OF
CHALLENGE
1716
L1
彫
CHŌ, horu
carve, sculpture
11 strokes
CHŌKOKUcarving
CHŌZŌsculpture
tebori hand carving
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 115,
a determinative taken to signify ‘decorative
feathers/features’, combined with
532 ‘encircle, around’, taken in one view as
semantic and phonetic, giving ‘surround with
decorative carving’ (Ogawa, Tōdō). In another
analysis, is taken as phonetic with associated
sense ‘knife’, giving ‘fashion decorative
elements with knife’ (Katō); based on a short
passage in Lun Yu (The Analects of Confucius),
Katō maintains that the original meaning of
is ‘carve wood with knife’. TA1965:179-83;
OT1968:345; KJ1970:514.
Mnemonic: THREE LINES CARVED AROUND
SCULPTURE
1717
眺
CHŌ, nagameru
gaze, look
L1
11 strokes
CHŌBŌview, outlook
nagameview, scene
CHŌBŌZEKKEI beauty spot
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 76
‘eye’, and 573 (‘sign, omen’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken as i] ‘distant’,
giving ‘look into the distance’ (Ogawa), or
ii] open’, giving ‘open up the field of vision’
(Tōdō). OT1968:700; TA1965:244-5.
Mnemonic: GAZING EYE LOOKS FOR SIGN
1718
釣
CHŌ, tsuru/ri
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 16
fishing, entice, lure, ‘metal’, and ‘scoop up, catch’ (see Note
L1
change
below) as semantic and phonetic, giving
11 strokes
‘scoop up/catch (fish)’. Alternatively, is
taken as phonetic with associated sense
tsuribafishing spot
‘pull out’, but still giving essentially the same
CHŌGYOangling
meaning, in this view ‘pull fish out of water’
tsuriSEN change (coin)
(Tōdō). It is unclear as to how came to
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