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1833
婆
BA, baba
Seal ( ) . The seal form has 37 ‘woman’,
old woman
L1
with 1867 (‘general; carry’) as phonetic
11 strokes
with associated sense ‘go round and round’,
giving ‘woman dances round and round’.
RŌBAold woman
The sense ‘old woman’ represents a loan
SANBAmidwife
usage. Regarding the later form , which
onibabawitch, hag
has 387 (‘wave’) in place of as phonetic
(same associated sense), an example can
be found in clerical script. DJ2009:v3:1020;
KJ1970:784; SS1984:679; SK1984:202.
Mnemonic: ALAS, OLD WOMAN SINKS
UNDER WAVES
1834
罵
BA, nonoshiru
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has
insult, abuse
‘net’ (top element: 570), with 210
L1
15 strokes
(‘horse’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘anger’, giving ‘enmesh/enclose in anger’,
BASEIjeers, boos
and hence ‘abuse, curse’. KJ1970:423-4;
BATŌdenunciation
TA1965:453; OT1968:796. Suggest taking
AKUBAvilification, abuse
as ‘eye’ 76.
Mnemonic: KEEP AN EYE ON THAT
HORSE – IT’S SUFFERED ABUSE
Or: HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY ONE-EYED
HORSE!
1835
杯
HAI, sakazuki
winecup, cup(ful)
L2
8 strokes
KANPAIa toast, Cheers!
IPPAIa cup, full
sakazukigotoexchange of cups
Seal ( 桮 ) . The seal form consists of
73 ‘wood, tree’, combined with 972 (‘no,
deny’) as phonetic with associated sense
taken in one view as ‘make to curve’, giving
‘vessel/receptacle made by making wood
curve’, specifically here ‘wine cup’ (Ogawa).
Alternatively, the associated sense is taken
as ‘divide up’, giving ‘wooden item for dividing
up wine’ (Katō; Mizukami regards this
latter interpretation as similarly meaning
‘wine cup’). At the clerical script stage,
as phonetic was sometimes replaced by
600 (‘not’), with the same associated sense.
DJ2009:v2:477; OT1968:495; KJ1970:795;
MS1995:v1:670-71; SK1984:398.
Mnemonic: THIS WINECUP IS NOT MADE OF
WOOD
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