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670
L3
基
KI, moto, motozuku
base
11 strokes
KIHONbasis, standard
KIKINfund, foundation
KICHIbase (army etc.)s
Bronze ; seal . Has 64 ‘earth, soil’, and
269 (originally winnowing basket, showing
a basket on a stand, now meaning ‘that’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘platform to
put things on’, to give ‘platform to pile up earth
on’; sense generalized to ‘base, foundation’.
MS1995:v1:270-71; KJ1970:239; YK1976:114.
Mnemonic: WINNOWING DEVICE IS BASED
ON FIRM GROUND
671
寄
KI, yoru/seru
approach, send, visit
L3
11 strokes
KIYOcontribution
yosenamisurf
tachiyoru‘drop in’, visit
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 30 ‘roof,
dwelling’, and 1174 (originally person
standing on one leg; now ‘strange’) either as
672
L3
規
11
KI
standard,
measure
strokes
KISOKUrule
JŌGIrule(r), measure
DAIKIBOlarge-scale
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 601
‘husband, man’, here not in its modern
sense but instead representing another
word – homophonous in early Chinese with
673
技
GI, waza
craft, skill
L3
7 strokes
GIJUTSUtechnique
GISHItechnician
ENGIacting skills
semantic and phonetic, meaning ‘stand on
one leg’ (Yamada), or as phonetic with associated
sense ‘rely on’ (Katō, Ogawa). In either
case, the overall meaning is taken to be ‘stay
temporarily at someone else’s house’. In Tōdō’s
word-family indicating ‘bent’ (‘be bent at ninety
degrees’). YK1976:114; KJ1970:123; OT1968:280;
TA1965:578-82.
Mnemonic: APPROACH STRANGE DWELLING
FOR A VISIT
that for ‘husband, man’ – in the measure sense
‘width of four fingers’, later written with the
‘hand’ determinative 34 as (another
meaning is ‘support, assist’, which is the one
that has been retained through into modern
Japanese: see 1905). combines with
20 (‘see’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘round’, to give ‘a round measure’, i.e. ‘compass’.
‘Standard’ is an extended sense. YK1976:115;
KJ1970:237; AS2007:239-40.
Mnemonic: HUSBAND SEEN AS STANDARD
TO BE MEASURED BY
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 34 ‘hand’,
here reinforcing 717 (originally hand holding
piece of bamboo, taken as meaning ‘separate,
split off’, with modern meaning ‘support’ seen
as loan usage [Katō, Yamada]) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘work with the hands’, to give
‘make things with the hands’, and by extension
‘craft, skill’. KJ1970:243; YK1976:118-9;
OT1968:402.
Mnemonic: SUPPORT WORK-HANDS SKILLED
IN CRAFT
218 The 185 Fifth Grade Characters