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1768
L1
妬
TO, netamu/mi/mashii
be jealous, envy
8 strokes
TOSHINjealousy
SHITTOjealousy, envy
netami jealousy, envy
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 37
‘woman’, with 47 (‘stone’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken either as i] ‘obstruct’,
giving ‘woman is obstructive/difficult’
(Ogawa), or ii] ‘become full, come together
at one point’, giving ‘woman experiences
strong feelings of displeasure’ (Tōdō). These
do not seem to link clearly to jealousy and
envy. Perhaps so as to address gender issues,
Shirakawa refers also to a high-profile
case of male jealousy in the Tang Dynasty.
OT1968:256; TA1965:325-30; SS1984:636.
Mnemonic: JEALOUS WOMAN THROWS STONE
1769
途
TO
road, way
L2
10 strokes
TOCHŪalong the way
ZENTO(one’s) future
TOTAN verge, just as/when
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Taken in one
view as 85 ‘move, walk along a road’, with
820 (‘ample’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘step, tread’, giving ‘route people have
trodden’, i.e. ‘road’ (Katō). is listed in the
6th century Yupian; before that (OBI onwards),
was used, a graph which Shuowen treats
as denoting a river name. comprises
42 ‘water’, with as phonetic with associated
sense ‘abundant; extend’, giving
‘river with abundant flow’, or ‘mud’, giving
‘muddy river’ (both interpretations listed in
Mizukami); Mizukami treats ‘road’ as a loan
usage. Schuessler and Karlgren, though, give
different meanings for , viz. ‘path along
bank of a canal; paved path’, in which case
‘road’ can be seen as an extended sense.
KJ1970:730; MS1995:v2:754-5; AS2007:501;
BK1957:39-40.
Mnemonic: ROAD PERMITS AMPLE MOVEMENT
1770
渡
TO, wataru/su
cross, hand over
L2
12 strokes
TOKŌpassage, crossing
TOSEI livelihood
iiwatashi (court) sentence
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has’water’
/ 42 (or ‘river’), with 377 (‘degree,
times’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘cross, traverse’ (Katō says ‘cross from one
edge to the other’), thus ‘cross water/river’.
Ogawa prefers to treat here as both
semantic and phonetic, based on its initial
sense of ‘measure with hand’, whereby
an object was measured by moving the
hand across it, hence the sense ‘crossing’.
OT1968:596; KJ1970:612.
Mnemonic: CROSS WATER BY DEGREES
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