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1792
謄
TŌ
copy
L1
17 strokes
TŌSHAcopy
TŌHONmanuscript
TŌSHAKIcopy machine
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .
Has 118 ‘words’ (here ‘written’), with 1731
(royal ‘We’), as phonetic with associated sense
taken as i] ‘succeed’ (Ogawa) or ii] ‘write’ (Katō),
thus ‘succeed in copying written
text’. OT1968:941; KJ1970:736.
Mnemonic: ‘OUR’ WORDS SHOULD BE
COPIED
1793
藤
TŌ, fuji
wisteria
L1
18 strokes
fujiirolilac colored
fujidanawisteria trellis
KATTŌentanglements, discord
1794
闘
TŌ, tatakau
fight
L1
18 strokes
TŌSHIfighting spirit
TŌSHIfighter
SENTŌKIfighter plane
Seal ( 鬭 ) ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional:
鬭 . Has , a determinative (not to
be confused with 231 ‘gate’) OBI form
of which shows two people (or possibly
two beasts) facing each other or locked
in fighting), with 斲 (CO, ‘cut tree with ax’;
see Note below) taken either as i] semantic
and phonetic (‘cut’) > ‘fight’ (Ogawa), or ii]
Late post-Shuowen graph. Has 53 ‘plant’,
with (‘rise up, boil’; see Note) as phonetic
with associated sense taken as i] ‘rope’ >
‘plant twisted like rope’, i.e. ‘vine’ (Ogawa), or
ii] ‘alternate; become twisted’ > ‘plant which
becomes twisted’, i.e. ‘vine; wisteria’ (Tōdō).
The narrow sense ‘wisteria’ seems a Japanese-only
usage. Note: Shirakawa takes
as 氺 , variant of 42 ‘water’, with 1731
(‘royal We’; Shirakawa says orig meaning is
‘offer up’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘rise’. OT1968:876; TA1965:90-92; SS1984:650.
Mnemonic: ‘WE’ HAVE WATERED THE
WISTERIA PLANT
phonetic with associated sense ‘hit’. Later,
determinative changed from to ‘gate’
(seemingly a common transition in clerical
script; also, 斲 was replaced by as phonetic
(same associated sense), probably at
block script stage. Note: 斲 has 1233 ‘ax’,
with (CO; ‘large wine vessel’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘cut, strike, shave off’
(Mizukami). originally (seal form) shows
wine vessel in profile. MS1995:v2:1478-
9,v1:598-9; KJ1970:732-3; OT1968:1138;
KZ2001:3256/3671,1025/3671; SK1984:802.
Use ‘bean’ 379, ‘hand’ 920, ‘gate’ 231.
Mnemonic: FIGHT IN GATEWAY
OVER HANDFUL OF BEANS
The Remaining 1130 Characters 535