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1786
L1
搭
TŌ
load, board
12 strokes
TŌSAIloading
TŌJŌboarding
TŌJŌKEN boarding pass
A very late post-Shuowen graph. Consists of
/ ‘hand’ 34, combined with (original
meaning: ‘red beans’: see 1785) as phonetic
(associated sense somewhat unclear, though
Katō states ‘strike with the hand’). Original
meaning is ‘grasp’ or ‘hold up/support in the
hand’ (Gu). According to Shirakawa, used in
early modern times in a range of meanings
for actions such as ‘hit’ and ‘mix’, and now in
the sense ‘load, come/go on board’, which he
maintains reflects earlier usage in military
jargon but has now been adopted into
general usage. Katō states that ‘load, board’
are borrowed meanings. GY2008:1401;
SS1984:647; KJ1985:269. We suggest taking
as ‘plant’ 53, and ‘join, put together’
134, along with ‘hand’/.
Mnemonic: HANDS PUT PLANTS TOGETHER
FOR LOADING
1787
棟
TŌ, mune, munaridgepole,
building
L1
12 strokes
BYŌTŌhospital ward
munagiridgepole
BETSUmune outbuilding
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists
of 73 ‘wood, tree’, combined with 201
(‘east’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘pierce, penetrate’, giving ‘ridgepole which
extends to the roof ridgebeam’ (Ogawa), or
‘framework timber which extends across to
(framework) extremity’ (Tōdō). In Japanese
usage only, a counter for houses (-mune).
OT1968:512; TA1965:286-9; SS1984:647-8.
Mnemonic: WOOD FROM EAST IS BEST FOR
BUILDING’S RIDGEPOLE
1788
痘
TŌ
smallpox
L1
12 strokes
SUITŌchicken pox
SHUTŌvaccination
TENNENTŌ smallpox
A very late post-Shuowen graph. Consists of
404 ‘sickbed; illness, disease’, combined
with 379 ‘bean; miniature’ as semantic and
phonetic, giving ‘disease producing bean-like
pustules’, i.e. ‘smallpox’. Note that early Japan
had serious problems with smallpox as they
lacked the endemicization that the Chinese
had (such as exposure to chicken-pox, a
milder form). In the years 735-737 there was
a massive smallpox epidemic, which killed up
to a third of the entire population of Japan.
GY2008:1481-2; OT1968:679; KJ1970:734-5.
Mnemonic: SMALLPOX IS A DISEASE WITH
BEAN-LIKE PUSTULES
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