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L1
俵
HYŌ, tawara
sack, bag
10 strokes
IPPYŌone bag
komedawararice sack
DOHYŌsandbag, sumo ring
Seal ; late graph (Yupian). Has 41 person’,
and 402 (‘surface, list, appear’) as phonetic.
Most commentators do not give an associated
sense for . One exception is Katō, who refers
to a light illness quickly recovered from; and
Yamada, who says ‘move nimbly’, giving an
overall sense ‘nimble person’, on the basis that
is perhaps a variant form of another graph
similar in pronunciation, i.e. 僄 , CO meaning
‘light, nimble’; Katō shares this view. In the Yupian
dictionary the meaning of is noted as ‘distribute’,
though Katō notes was also sometimes
used in Han time texts in the sense of .
In Japanese only, is used exclusively with a
different meaning, i.e. ‘bag, sack (for rice, etc.)’.
The word DOHYŌ () means ‘sumo wrestling
ring’ as well as ‘bag filled with sand (or similar)’,
but this just reflects the fact that traditionally
the ring is formed with sandbags. The explanation
for use of for ‘sack, bag’ in Japanese may
be that originally referred to an enveloping
outer garment, and similarly a bag or sack
is itself an enveloping cover. YK1976:427-8;
KJ1970:843-4; SS1984:725; KJ1985:42-3.
Mnemonic: PERSONS APPEARING ON LIST
GET A BAG
797
評
HYŌ
Seal ; late graph. Has 118 ‘words, speech’,
criticism,
and 411 (‘flat, even, calm’) as semantic
L3
comment
and phonetic, to give ‘fair words’; ‘by extension,
senses such as ‘comment on’ and ‘judge’.
12 strokes
YK1976:428; KJ1970:847; OT1968:926.
HYŌKAappraisal
Mnemonic: CALM WORDS ARE FAIR
HYŌBANreputation
AKUHYŌnotoriety
COMMENTS
798
貧
HIN, BIN, mazushii Seal: ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 10 ‘shell
poor, meager
currency, valuables’, and 218 as semantic
L3
11 strokes
and phonetic, meaning ‘divide up, disperse’;
overall sense is therefore ‘assets are dispersed’,
HINKETSUanaemia
i.e. ‘indigent, poor’. YK1976:430; KJ1970:811-12;
HINKONpoverty
OT1968:954.
BINBŌNINpauper
Mnemonic: MONEY DIVIDED, SO NOW POOR
799
L1
布
FU, nuno
cloth
5 strokes
MŌFUblanket
FUTONquilt, bedding
nunojicloth
Bronze ; seal . Has 1232 ‘(piece of) cloth’,
and 216 ‘father’ as semantic and phonetic
(original sense being ‘strike [with stone ax]’), to
give ‘cloth made by beating’, i.e. ‘hemp cloth’;
later, cloth in general. Mizukami also notes the
alternative interpretation of here as phonetic
with associated sense ‘flat and thin’, to give
‘flat, thin cloth’, but the first analysis here seems
persuasive. YK1976:432; MS1995:v1:436-7;
KJ1970:814.
Mnemonic: FATHER’S HAND HOLDS BEATEN
CLOTH
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