480531170

800
L3
婦
FU
woman, wife
11 strokes
FUJINwoman
SHUFUhousewife
FUCHŌchief nurse
OBI ; seal . Has 37 ‘woman’, and
(‘broom’: see 106) as phonetic with associated
sense either ‘embellish/adorn’, to give ‘embellished
female’ (Katō, Yamada), or ‘accompany
closely’, giving ‘woman who accompanies
(husband) closely’ (Tōdō). In early texts (esp
801
富
FU, FŪ, tomi, tomu
wealth, riches
L3
12 strokes
FUYŪwealth
tomikujilottery
FUJISANMt Fuji
Bronze ; seal . Has 30 ‘roof, building’,
and 畐 409 (‘[full] wide-necked jar’) as pho-
802
武
BU, MU
military, warrior
L3
8 strokes
BUSHIDŌwarrior code
BUKIweapon
MUSHAwarrior
OBI ; seal . Interpretations diverge. One
analysis takes 143 ‘stop’, here in its original
sense of ‘footprint’, and the second component
545 ‘halberd’ (Qiu says ‘dagger-ax’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘stride’, giving ‘one
OBI), often written , without the element .
Katō and Tōdō state that in ancient China this
graph originally meant ‘daughter-in-law’; the
meaning later becoming more generalized.
The alternative, more direct interpretation as
‘woman’ with ‘broom’ is difficult to rule
out, given, for instance, the uncertainty of
whether one of the elements in 708 ‘wife’
represents ‘hairpins’ on the one hand or ‘broom’
on the other. YK1976:433-4; MS1995:v1:336-7;
KJ1970:253-4,251.
Mnemonic: WOMAN HOLDING BROOM IN
HAND IS PROBABLY A WIFE
netic with associated sense ‘abundant, full’, to
give ‘house/household of abundance’; meaning
later generalized to ‘abundant, wealthy’.
KJ1970:827-8; MS1995:v1:382-3; OT1968:281;
YK1976:434. Suggest taking lower components
as 1, ‘one/single’, 22 ‘mouth/entrance’ and
63 ‘field’.
Mnemonic: HOUSE AT SINGLE ENTRANCE TO
FIELD GROWS WEALTHY
stride’ (Yamada, Ogawa); in this view, militaryorientated
meanings are regarded as loan usages.
Mizukami notes the alternative treatment,
which takes in its other original – and more
active – sense of ‘foot’ (Shirakawa regards this
component here as an abbreviation of 221
‘walk’), combining with ‘halberd’, to give
‘advance with halberds’; in this treatment,
‘warrior’ is an extended meaning. YK1976:434-5;
OT1968:538; MS1995:v1:704-5; QX2000:155.
Mnemonic: WARRIOR WITH HALBERD STOPS
803
L3
復
FUKU
again, repeat
12 strokes
FUKKATSUrevival
KAIFUKUrecovery
FUKUSHŪrevision
OBI Bronze ; seal . Interpretations vary.
The OBI form ( 复 ), the original way of writ-
ing , consists of two elements. Scholars are
divided over whether to take the lower one as
originally (Shirakawa, Gu), normally understood
as ‘walk slowly, drag the foot’, or as
‘descending foot’ (Katō [for some occurrences],
Yamada) (for and , see Appendix). Despite
such divergence, this lower ‘foot’ element is
taken to mean a type of motion. The upper
element is typically analysed as a pictograph
252 The 185 Fifth Grade Characters