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574
L1
腸
CHŌ, harawata
intestine(s)
13 strokes
CHŌSEN(cat) gut
CHŌEN enteritis
DAICHŌlarge intestine
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has () 209
‘flesh’, and 161 (CO, ‘sun rises high’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘long’, to give
‘long body part’, i.e. ‘intestines’. KJ1970:880;
YK1976:368; OT1968:825.
Mnemonic: FLESHY INTESTINES EXPOSED TO
RISING SUN
575
L4
低
TEI, hikui
low
7 strokes
SAITEIlowest
TEIRI low interest rate
TEIRAKUdecline
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Analyses vary.
Has 41 ‘person’, and disputed element (interpreted
as either ‘base of small hill’, or ‘spoon
touching bottom of plate’ > ‘down low’, ‘scrape’)
as semantic and phonetic (see 522 ‘clan’).
Former view (Katō, Yamada) gives ‘those who
576
L3
底
TEI, soko
bottom, base
8 strokes
KAITEIsea-bed
OKUsokodepths
TEIRYŪunder-current
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 127
‘house, building’, and (either ‘base of small
hill’, or ‘spoon touching bottom of plate’ >
‘down low’) as semantic and phonetic, mean-
577
停
TEI
stop
L3
11 strokes
TEISHIstoppage
TEISHAJOstation
TEIDENpower cut
live lower down, servants’, as opposed to the
nobility; adherents of the other view (Ogawa,
Tōdō) take to mean ‘short person’. In both
cases, ‘short, low’ is an extended sense generalized
from original meaning. Mizukami lists both
views for the element . KJ1970:713-4;
YK1976:372; TA1965:749-52; OT1968:55;
MS1995:v2:724-6. Suggest taking as ‘clan’
with bottom line beneath, and 41 as ‘persons,
people’.
Mnemonic: PEOPLE OF THAT CLAN ARE VERY
LOW – BOTTOM-LINE IN FACT
ing ‘dwelling at foot of hill’ (see 575). Yamada
takes ‘lowest part, bottom’ as loan usage, but
it can alternatively be seen as extended sense
through generalization. Ogawa takes differently,
as phonetic only with associated sense
‘stop, stay’; in this view, ‘bottom’ is loan use.
KJ1970:713; YK1976:373; OT1968:327-8. As 575,
use ‘clan’ and ‘bottom line’.
Mnemonic: THAT BOTTOM-LINE CLAN IS
NOW BASED IN A BUILDING
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 41 ‘person’,
and 1745 (‘tall/turreted house’ or ‘inn to
lodge’) as semantic and phonetic, to give ‘stay
at a house’; by extension, ‘stay, stop’ in general.
KJ1970:715; YK1976:374; OT1968:75.
Mnemonic: PERSON STAYS AT TALL INN
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