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2135
L2
湾
WAN
bay, gulf
12 strokes
KŌWANharbor
WANNYŪinlet
TŌKYŌWANTokyo Bay
2136
腕
WAN, ude
arm, ability
L2
12 strokes
WANSHŌarmband
SHUWANability
hosoudethin arms, slender means
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 209
‘flesh, meat; body’, with (NJK ‘stoop, bend
over’; see Note below) as phonetic with associated
sense taken in one view as ‘straight
and short’, giving ‘forearm’ (Katō). Another
commentator (Ogawa) takes the associated
sense as i] ‘bend’, giving ‘part (of body) to
move by bending hand’ (sic); this would be
A late, post-Shuowen graph; traditional form:
. Consists of 42 ‘water’, with ‘bend (a
bow)’ (see note below) as semantic and phonetic,
giving ‘water’s edge bent like a bow’,
i.e. ‘bay’. Note: CO is comprised of 107
‘bow’, with 䜌 as phonetic with associated
sense ‘bend’. KJ1970:934-5; OT1968:598;
AS2007:506. We suggest using 1876 (NJK
meaning ‘again’).
Mnemonic: THE WATERS OF A BOW-SHAPED
BAY AGAIN
unsatisfactory as a way of paraphrasing ‘arm’,
but it does correspond to Tōdō’s interpretation
(echoed by Schuessler) as ‘wrist’. While
there are differences of interpretation as
to which part of the arm was originally
denoted, the graph has clearly been used to
refer to the arm or some part of it. Note:
is comprised of 30 ‘roof, building, cover’,
with 夗 (‘lie in bent-up position’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘rounded, bent’, giving
‘stoop, bend’. KJ1970:934; OT1968:825;
AS2007:583; TA1965:611-21; GY2008:186.
Mnemonic: ABILITY TO LIE WITH BODY AND
ARM IN BENT POSITION UNDER ROOF
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