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2040
湧
YŪ, waku
, for which there is a seal form in Shuowen
boil, seethe, gush (see Note below). Note: is comprised of
L1
12 strokes
‘water’, with (CO, artefact with hollow
center and a top feature for hanging/attaching;
YŪSHUTSUgush(ing)
Schuessler says ‘suspension ring at top
wakitatsu seethe, boil
of bell’: see also 193 for a similar shaped
wakiokoru arise
element) as phonetic with associated sense
‘project up/out’, giving ‘water bubbles up/
boils’. SS1984:845,646; DJ2009:v3:898;
GY2008:1138-9; OT1968:598; AS2007:578.
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Consists of
/ 42 ‘water’, combined with 622
(‘brave, valiant’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘project, jut out/up’ (Ogawa), giving
‘water boils’. The graph appears to equate to
Mnemonic: HOW BRAVE TO TAKE ON
SEETHING WATER
2041
L1
猶
12
YŪ, nao
delay, hesitate, still
more
strokes
YŪYOdelay, postponement
YŪSHI foster child
YŪYOKIKAN grace period
Bronze seal ; traditional form () has
on right. Consists of /19 ‘dog’ (but
sometimes used to denote other wild animals/beasts;
here, ‘monkey’), with (‘chief’;
see Note below) as phonetic with associated
sense taken either as i] ‘flinch, shrink back’
(Ogawa), or ii] ‘hesitant, distrustful’ (Katō),
either way giving ‘(type of) distrustful monkey’;
Qiu notes Shuowen definition as ‘kind
of large (female) ape’. The sense was then
generalized to ‘doubt, hesitate’; used in early
Chinese as a loan also for its sound value to
represent a range of grammatical function
words, including ‘still’. ‘Delay’ is an extended
meaning from ‘hesitate’. Note: consists
of 318 ‘wine jar’, combined with 70
(‘eight’) in its original sense ‘disperse, away,
off, out’, and taken in one interpretation as
representing wine about to overflow from a
wine jar (Gu). Another analysis, by contrast,
takes the top strokes as indicating wine fragrance
being emitted, and hence ‘matured
wine’ (Mizukami, Ogawa). The latter analysis
leads quite readily to the passage of time as
an extended sense. MS1995:v2:836-7,1344-5;
OT1968:646,1024; GY2008:923-4; KJ1970:24;
QX2000:280; AS2007:580; WD1974:847-9. We
suggest taking as ‘beast’.
Mnemonic: BEAST HESITATES NEAR FUMING
WINE JAR, CAUSING STILL MORE DELAY
2042
L1
裕
YŪ, yutaka
rich, plentiful
12 strokes
YŪFUKUopulence
YOYŪ margin, surplus
FUYŪKAIKYŪ the wealthy
Bronze ; seal . Consists of 444
‘garment’, with 135 (‘valley’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘leeway, margin,
abundance’, giving ‘plentiful garments’. The
meaning was then generalized to ‘leeway,
abundance’. KJ1970:887-8; OT1968:906;
AS2007:589,259.
Mnemonic: PLENTIFUL RICH CLOTHES,
ENOUGH TO FILL A VALLEY
The Remaining 1130 Characters 611