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1795
騰
TŌ
rise, leap
L1
20 strokes
TŌKI(price) rise
TŌRAKUfluctuations
BŌTŌsharp rise
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
form: . Consists of 210 ‘horse’,
combined with 1731 (the royal ‘We’) as
phonetic with associated sense taken either
as i] ‘take over, succeed to’, giving an original
meaning ‘relay horse, post horse’, with ‘climb,
rise up’ as a loan usage (Ogawa), or ii] ‘leap,
climb’, giving ‘horse leaps up’, then generalized
to ‘rise, leap’ (Katō, Tōdō). OT1968:1129;
KJ1970:736; TA1965:93-6.
Mnemonic: ‘WE’ WILL LEAP ONTO ‘OUR’
HORSE
1796
洞
DŌ, hora
cave, penetrate
L1
9 strokes
DŌKUTSUcavern, cavity
DŌSATSUinsight
KŪDŌcave, hollow
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 42
‘water’, with 204 (‘same’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken in one view as ‘pass
through’, giving ‘water passes through’, and
by extension ‘pierce’ (Ogawa, Tōdō); with this
interpretation, ‘cavity, hollow’ can perhaps be
seen as a further extended sense based on the
action of erosion by flowing water. Alternatively,
is taken here with associated sense
‘tube, hollow’, giving ‘cave where water has
entered deep into’ (Shirakawa). OT1968:576;
TA1965:286-9; SS1984:655.
Mnemonic: SAME WATER PENETRATES
CAVE
1797
胴
DŌ
body, trunk, torso
L1
10 strokes
DŌTAIbody, trunk
SŌDŌSENcatamaran
DŌmawarigirth
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has / ‘meat,
flesh; body’ 209, with 204 (‘same’) as
phonetic with associated sense taken either
as i] ‘big’ (Katō), or ii] ‘tube-shaped, hollow’
(Ogawa, Shirakawa), either way giving ‘large
intestine, colon’. This is the meaning given
for in the 6 th century Yupian, but then the
associated word and graph were also extended
to other tube-shaped or hollow parts
of the body; over time, ‘torso, trunk’ appears
to have become the dominant meaning.
KJ1970:738; OT1968:822; SS1984:655.
Mnemonic: TORSO IS OF SAME FLESH AS
BODY
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