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1826
L1
寧
NEI, mushiro
peace, preferably
14 strokes
ANNEIpublic peace
TEINEIcivility, care
NEIJITSUquiet day
OBI ; bronze ; seal . Views vary. OBI form
has 30 ‘house’, with 300 ‘bowl’, plus 丂 ;
the latter normally ‘floating aquatic weed’ 130,
but taken here by Gu as pictograph for ‘shelf’,
giving overall meaning ‘house with plentiful
food’ (see Note below). Bronze forms typically
add 164 ‘heart, feelings’ as a further
element. One view takes the bronze form as
‘house’, with as phonetic with associated
sense ‘calm, peaceful’, thus ‘house is peaceful
inside’ (Katō). Shirakawa, alternatively, proposes
a different analysis, as signifying a ritual
of offering the heart of a wild animal in a bowl
to soothe ancestral spirits; Ogawa is in broad
agreement. Other meanings such as ‘preferably’
are loan uses. Note: OBI equivalents of
丂 have relatively little by way of curve in
the bottom stroke. GY2008:v1:195,v2:900-01;
MS1995:v1:386-7; KJ1970:853; SS1984:672;
OT1968:283; WD1974:540-42. Take as eye
76, nail 367.
Mnemonic: FEEL PEACEFUL HOME IS
PREFERABLE TO A NAIL IN THE EYE
1827
捻
NEN, nejiru, hineru
twist, screw
L1
11 strokes
NENZAsprain
neJI*screw
NENTENtorsion
Seal ; late graph (later version Shuowen).
Has 34 ‘hand’, with 590 (‘thought,
concern’) as phonetic with associated sense
probably ‘firm(ly)’, thus overall meaning
‘pinch with fingers, twist’. GY2008:1220;
OT1968:421; SS1984:673-4; AS2007:401.
Mnemonic: TWISTED HAND IS OF CONCERN
1828
粘
NEN, nebaru
sticky, glutinous
L1
11 strokes
NENDOclay
NENCHAKUadhesion
nebarizuyoitenacious
Seal () . Seal form has NJK ‘millet’,
with 1598 (‘divination’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘stick/adhere’ > ‘sticky
millet’. Later (unclear when), the determinative
220 ‘rice’ was sometimes used in
this graph in place of , resulting in ,
though this was long regarded as a popular
equivalent: Kangxi zidian still treats as
a popular form of . ‘Sticky/glutinous’ is a
generalized sense. KJ1970:624; TA1965:836-
8; KZ2001:1995/3671.
Mnemonic: DIVINE USING STICKY RICE?!
1829
悩
NŌ, nayamu/masu
worry, distress
L2
10 strokes
KUNŌdistress
NŌSATSUcaptivation
ŌNŌtorment
Seal ; traditional forms 㛴 , . Seal form
has 37 ‘woman’, with