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1974
冒
BŌ, okasu
defy, risk, attack
L1
9 strokes
BŌKENadventure
KANBŌa cold, flu
BŌTŌopening, start (text etc)
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Has 76
‘eye’, with 冃 ; the latter element – probably
originally a pictograph – represents a covering
for the head coming down as far as the
eyes, hence ‘headgear’. By extension ‘cover’;
‘attack’ and ‘risk’ are loan usages. as top
element in is a late modification serving
simply to regularize the shape. KJ1970:771;
GY2008:841; MS1995:v1:110-11; OT1968:698.
Take as ‘sun’ 66.
Mnemonic: DEFY SUN IN THE EYE IN RISKY
ATTACK
1975
剖
BŌ
divide, cut (up)
L1
10 strokes
KAIBŌdissection
KAIBŌGAKUanatomy
SHITAIKAIBŌautopsy
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 198
‘knife/cut’, with 咅 (‘about to split open’, etc.;
see 1839 Note) as phonetic with associated
sense taken as i] ‘be divided into two’ (Ogawa,
Tōdō), or ii] ‘open up’ (Katō), either way giving
‘divide, cut up’.OT1968:119; TA1965:158;
KJ1970:759; SS1984:798. Suggest take 咅 as
‘stand’ 77 and 22 as ‘opening/entrance’.
Mnemonic: STAND AT ENTRANCE AND GET
CUT UP BY KNIFE
1976
紡
BŌ, tsumugu
spin (yarn)
L1
10 strokes
BŌKIspinning machine
BŌMŌcarded wool
BŌSEKIKŌspinner
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 29
‘thread’, with 223 (‘side, direction’) as
phonetic with associated sense taken in one
view as ‘join together’, giving ‘combine fibers to
make thread’ (Ogawa). Alternatively, associated
phonetic sense of here is taken to be
‘raise up’, referring to the upward movement
of thread in the spinning process (Shirakawa).
OT1968:771; SS1984:798-9.
Mnemonic: SPIN THREADS ON THE SIDE
1977
傍
BŌ, katawara
side, beside(s)
L1
12 strokes
BŌCHŌattendance
BŌKANlooking on
BŌCHŪmargin notes
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Views differ.
One view has 41 ‘person’ with (NJK,
originally meaning ‘bring two boats alongside
each other’, thus ‘person in charge of boats’,
i.e. ‘boatman’). ‘Side’ is then seen as extended
sense derived from (Katō). Alternatively,
is taken as meaning ‘everywhere, side’, with
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