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678
L3
居
KYO, iru, oru
be, reside
8 strokes
KYOJŪdwelling
JŪKYOdwelling
idokorowhereabouts
Bronze ; seal . Has 256 taken either as
a corpse laid out on its side, or a person lying
on their side (Katō takes as indicating submission),
and 121 (‘old’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘crouch down’ or ‘sit’, to give
‘crouch’ or ‘sit down’. Since this involves not
moving, by extension ‘stay, reside’. YK1976:128-
9; KJ1970:266,452-3; MS1995:v1:408-9,404-5.
Suggest taking as slumped person.
Mnemonic: OLD PERSON SLUMPED IN
RESIDENCE
679
L3
許
11
KYOKApermission
TOKKYOpatent
temotoat hand
KYO, yurusu, moto
permit, forgive, place,
home
strokes
Bronze ; seal . Has 118 ‘words; speak’,
and 122 (‘noon’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘allow, permit’, to give ‘listen to another’s
words’, and by extension ‘allow, permit’.
MS1995:v2:1186-7; KJ1970:265-6; YK1976:129.
Mnemonic: PERMIT SPEECH AT NOON
680
境
KYŌ, KEI, sakai
boundary, border
L3
14 strokes
KOKKYŌfrontier
KEIDAIprecinct
KYŌKAISENboundary line
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 64 ‘earth,
ground’, and (NJK, originally, ‘music piece
ends’, now just ‘end, finish’) as semantic and
phonetic meaning ‘boundary’, to give ‘boundary
of land’. Katō links (and by extension,
) to NJK , an older, more intricate graph
(representing a near-homophone originally
meaning ‘strong bow’ and then just ‘strong’)
which was itself loaned for ‘boundary’, a sense
subsequently reflected in the modified CO
graph , which has added). KJ1970:272;
YK1976:134; OT1968:223; MS1995:v2:982-
3,v1:472-3; AS2007:319,307. We suggest taking
as its components 6 ‘sound’ and 41
‘(bent) legs/person’.
Mnemonic: THE SOUND OF LEGS ON
GROUND AT BORDER
681
L3
均
7
KIN, hitoshii
average, level,
alike, equal
strokes
HEIKINaverage
KINTŌuniformity
FUKINKŌimbalance
Bronze ; seal . Has (analyzed as originally
either coiled reptile or earthworm [with
two short strokes indicating either short
legs, or as repetition sign for coiling], or bent,
encircling arm with two strokes meaning
‘arrange’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘arrange, bring under control’, and 64
‘ground’, thus ‘arrange, cultivate fields and make
level’, then by extension generalized to ‘level,
equal’. MS1995:v1:264-5,146-7; KJ1970:67-8;
YK1976:139; TA1965:712-22; OT1968:212-3. Take
two strokes as ‘two’, and as ‘coil’.
Mnemonic: TWO COILED WORMS ON LEVEL
GROUND LOOK ALIKE
220 The 185 Fifth Grade Characters