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form, which has firewood projecting up out
of a container. Gu thus takes the original
meaning of as ‘bamboo fire brand/torch’,
and treats the meaning ‘chopsticks’ given in
Shuowen as an extended sense. In modern
times the dot has tended to disappear, as is
the case with . OT1968:756; KJ1970:495;
GY2008:1727.
Mnemonic: PERSON HAS BAMBOO
CHOPSTICKS
1854
肌
hada, KI
skin, texture, grain
L1
6 strokes
hadairoflesh color
suhadabare skin
KIme*texture, grain
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 209
‘flesh, body’, with 845 (‘table, desk’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘be tight/
firm’, giving ‘skin to tightly enclose body’
(Tōdō; Ogawa). Tōdō also gives an alternative
analysis for , taking as phonetic
with associated sense ‘small, detailed’, giving
‘fine-textured skin’. TA1965:784-7,695-8;
OT1968:815.
Mnemonic: BODY AT DESK HAS FINE
TEXTURED SKIN
1855
鉢
HACHI
bowl, pot
L1
13 strokes
uekiBACHIplant pot
HACHImakiheadband
hiBACHI hibachibrazier
Relatively late graph. Has 16 ‘metal’, with
74 (‘root; book’) as phonetic. is taken by
Tōdō as here having associated sense ‘radiate,
spread out’, giving ‘metal artefact which radiates/spreads
out’, i.e. ‘bowl’. According to Gu,
is listed in a later version of Shuowen as a
variant of 盋 ‘bowl’ (see 300 and 1856). The
variant seems to have gained in favor to
represent a Sanskrit word originally meaning
‘alms bowl’ for Buddhist monks. Later
adopted for ‘bowl’ in a more general sense.
TA1965:654-8; AS2007:169; GY2008:1058.
Mnemonic: ROOTED IN A METAL BOWL
1856
髪
HATSU, kami
hair
L2
14 strokes
TŌHATSUhead hair
SANPATSUhaircut
kamigatahairstyle
Seal . Has ‘long hair’ (NJK; see Note 1
below), with 犮 (CO, ‘dog leaps up’ [Ogawa]
or ‘dog wags tail’ [Katō]; see Note 2 below)
as phonetic with associated sense taken as
i] ‘grow, emerge’, giving ‘hair grows’(Ogawa,
Katō), or ii] ‘cover’, giving ‘hair covering the
head’ (Tōdō). Mizukami also notes a view that
may be termed a variation of i] above, with
associated sense ‘spring up, open in random
way’, giving ‘hair which springs up in random
way’. Mizukami also lists proposed bronze
equivalents. Note 1: is taken as left hand
side 189 ‘long hair/person with long hair’,
combined with 115 as meaning ‘complete,
full/abundant’, giving ‘hair is full/abundant’
(Ogawa, Shirakawa). Note 2: Traditional form
of has 犮 as lower element, now regularized
in shape in a way that corresponds
to 友 234 (‘friend’). MS1995:v2:1476-8;
OT1968:1136; KJ1970:370; SS1984:725;
AS2007:166.
Mnemonic: MY FRIEND’S HAIR HAS THREE
LONG STRANDS
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