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1771
塗
TO, nuru
plaster, coat, paint
L1
13 strokes
TOSŌpainting
nurimonolacquerware
nurigusuriointment
Seal ; late graph (late version of Shuowen).
Has 64 ‘earth, ground’, with (‘mud’,
see 1769) as phonetic with associated sense
taken as i] ‘muddy water, mud’ (Katō, Ogawa),
or ii] ‘extend, spread’ (Tōdō), both giving
‘paint/smear mud (on walls)’. TA1965:336-9;
KJ1970:730; OT1968:223.
Mnemonic: USE MUDDY EARTH FOR PLASTER
1772
L1
賭
TO, kake/keru
gamble, bet
16 strokes ( 賭 )
kakegotobetting, gambling
kakeKINstakes, bet
TOBAKUgambling
Seal ; late graph (late version of Shuowen).
Has 10 ‘shell currency, valuables’, with
314 (‘person’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘aim for’ (Ogawa), giving ‘do something
with wealth as the aim’, and hence ‘gamble’.
OT1968:961; SS1984:638.
Mnemonic: PERSON GAMBLES WITH
SHELL-MONEY
1773
L1
奴
DOREIslave
yatsurathose guys
yakkosanthat guy
DO, yatsu, yakko
slave, servant, guy
5 strokes
OBI ; seal . Views differ. One takes as 37
‘female’, with 2003 ‘hand’, here in the sense
‘capture’, thus ‘female slave’ (Tōdō, Ogawa).
However, most OBI forms of have not
but 78 ‘strength; effort’, and this combination
is taken in another view as ‘exert effort’,
with as phonetic with associated sense
‘follow, obey’, giving ‘female slave who follows
commands and does hard physical work‘
1774
怒
DO, ikaru, okoru
anger, rage
L2
9 strokes
DOKIanger
DOnarushout, bawl
ikarikuruurage madly
(noted in Mizukami [ is apparently taken
as semantic here also]). Katō gives a similar
interpretation, but is not gender-specific, taking
overall meaning as ‘engage in work’, and
suggests later may simply be in error for
(see Note below). Note: OBI examples of
listed by Mizukami (and also by Matsumaru)
mostly have OBI equivalent of (seen to
represent downward-facing arm); the change
to seems to have occurred at the bronze
stage: all the bronze equivalents of listed
by Mizukami have (hand facing upwards).
The seal form also clearly has . TA1965:355-
7; OT1968:251; MS1995:v1:310-11,136-7,192-3;
MT1993:81,372-3; KJ1970:1739-40.
Mnemonic: HAND-MAIDEN IS A SLAVE
Seal . Has 164 ‘heart, feelings’, with
1773 (‘slave, servant’) as phonetic with associated
sense taken as i] ‘strain, stretch, tense’
(Mizukami, Katō, Ogawa), or ii] ‘exert extreme
force’ (Shirakawa), both giving ‘one’s mind becomes
tense/extreme’ > ‘become angry’. Mizukami
lists proposed bronze. MS1995:v1:504-5;
KJ1970:731; OT1968:365; SS1984:640-41.
Mnemonic: SLAVE’S FEELINGS ARE OF ANGER
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