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2069
L1
2070
L1
酪
13
RAKU
dairy produce, whey,
juice, curd
strokes
RAKUNŌdairy farming
RAKUSANbutyric acid
KANRAKUcheese
辣
RATSU
bitter, severe
14 strokes
RATSUWANastute, sharp
SHINRATSUbitter, harsh
AKURATSUunscrupulous
2071
濫
RAN
flood, wanton, overdo
L1
18 strokes
RANPIextravagance
RAN’YŌ abuse, misuse
HANRAN inundation
Seal ; late graph (later version of Shuowen).
Has 318 ‘wine jar’ (here indicating
fermentation), with 462 (‘each, every’)
as phonetic with associated sense taken
in one analysis as ‘sour’ (Ogawa). Shuowen
xinfu (Shuowen, Newly Appended) defines
as ‘milk made into a thick paste’; Shirakawa
takes this as signifying milk products made
into a drink or into cheese, and Gu is in
broad agreement. OT1968:1027; SS1984:864;
GY2008:1565.
Mnemonic: EACH JAR OF DAIRY PRODUCE
CONTAINS CURDS AND WHEY
A very late post-Shuowen graph. Consists of
1535 ‘sharp, bitter’ (originally pictograph
of needle), combined with 561 (‘bundle’)
taken as abbreviation of (‘oppose;
painful’; see 2067 Notes), giving ‘very spicy
(usually bitter)’; and by extension ‘severe’.
OT1968:991; SS1984:864; GY2008:1748. We
suggest taking as a ‘bent needle’.
Mnemonic: GETTING BUNDLE OF SEVERELY
BENT NEEDLES IS BITTER BLOW
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists of
/42 ‘water’, with 1159 (‘watch, supervise’)
as phonetic with associated sense
taken as either i] ‘cover’, giving ‘water covers’
(Ogawa), or – in similar vein – ii] ‘spread, be
prevalent/rampant’, giving ‘water spreads’,
i.e. ‘floods’ (Katō). By extension, ‘excessive,
overdo, wanton’. OT1968:613; KJ1970:898.
Mnemonic: WANTON SUPERVISION OF
FLOODING WATER
2072
藍
RAN, ai
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists
indigo
of 53 ‘plant, vegetation’, combined with
L1
18 strokes
1159 (‘supervise, watch’) as phonetic
(associated sense unclear). Shuowen defines
SHUTSURANbesting master as a ‘plant to dye things blue’. It refers
aiiro indigo color
to the plant itself, and by extension its use
GARAN Buddhist temple
as a dye for the color indigo (dark violetblue).
The first recorded use of indigo in
The Remaining 1130 Characters 621