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194
L3
195
L5
弟
TEI, DAI, DE, otōto
younger brother
7 strokes
SHITEIsons, children
DESHIfollower, pupil
KYŌDAIbrothers
OBI forms depict a weapon handle wrapped
with leather . There was a set, ordered
process for wrapping the handle, which can
店
TEN, mise, tana
store, premises
8 strokes
TEN’INstore staff
yomisenight stall
tanadateeviction
A very late graph (Yupian). Has 127 ‘roof,
building’, and 1598 (‘perform divination; occupy’)
as phonetic with associated sense taken
be thought of as the lower part of a weapon.
Mizukami lists associated meanings as ‘low;
order’, and ‘younger brother’ by extension; Katō
is essentially in agreement. The graph is in a
word-family Tōdō takes as meaning ‘straight
and short, low’. MS1995:v1:468-70; KJ1970:716;
TA1965:749-53.
Mnemonic: YOUNGER BROTHER GETS
BOUND TO A STAKE, BUT LOOSELY
as i] ‘arrange, display’, giving ‘place to set out
(and sell) things’ (Katō), or ii] ‘fixed/established
in the one place’, hence ‘building where things
are established (together) in one place’ (Tōdō);
in either case, ‘premises, shop’. KJ1970728-9;
TA1965:836-8. Suggest taking in one of its
modern meanings, ‘occupy’.
Mnemonic: A STORE OCCUPIES THAT BUILD-
ING WITH THE BIG ROOF
196
L3
197
L5
点
TEN
point, mark
9 strokes
TENSENdotted line
TOKUTENpoints
JŪTENemphasis
電
DEN
electricity
13 strokes
DENWAtelephone
DENKYŪlight bulb
DENRYŪelectric current
Seal . Late graph (Shuowen); traditional: .
Has 137 ‘black’, and 1598 (‘divine, occupy’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘small’, thus
‘small black specks’; then broadly ‘point/mark’.
KJ1970:726; SS1984:629; TA1965:836-8. Take
as divination, and 8 fire.
Mnemonic: FIRE USED IN DIVINATION LEAVES
BLACK MARKS
Bronze ; seal . Has 3 ‘rain/weather element’,
and 338 (orig. forked lightning), with
associated sense ‘stretch’ > ‘stretched weather
element’ > ‘lightning’. Both and are in
Tōdō’s word-family ‘extend’. MS1995:v2:1418-9,
872-3; TA1965:754-6. Use 63 ‘field’.
Mnemonic: LIGHTNING STRIKES FIELD IN
ELECTRIC RAINSTORM
198
刀
TŌ, katana
Pictograph of knife/sword , in compounds
sword, knife
usually . QX2000:180; MS1995:v1:122-3.
L1
2 strokes
Mnemonic: TWO-EDGED SWORD
DAITŌlong sword
GUNTŌmilitary sword
kogatanapocketknife
94 The 160 Second Grade Characters