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976
L1
奮
FUN, furuu
be excited, stir
16 strokes
FUNKIstirring
FUNTŌhard fight
furuitatsube stirred
Bronze ; seal . Bronze has 63 ‘field,
ground’, and element made up of 444
‘garment’ combined with 324 ‘short-tailed
bird, bird’ acting as semantic and phonetic,
meaning ‘bird flies up’, to give overall sense
‘bird flies up’. The seal form also has , but the
second element is changed to 奞 , also meaning
‘bird flying’ and with overall sense ‘bird
flies up’. By extension, ‘be animated, roused’.
MS1995:v1:308-9; ZY2009:v1:199; OT1968:675;
YK1976:440-41. Suggest taking top element as
56 ‘big’.
Mnemonic: BIG BIRD IN FIELD STIRS, FLYING
OFF EXCITEDLY
977
L3
並
HEI, nami, narabu
row, line, rank with,
ordinary
8 strokes
HEIKŌparallelism
namiki line of trees
tsukinami commonplace
OBI ; seal ; traditional . Two persons
standing, not moving, giving ‘be lined up/in a
row’; by extension, ‘ordinary’. MS1995:v2:982-3;
OT1968:745; SS1984:761. Awkward as a mnemonic,
but suggest two horizontal lines, two
vertical lines, and four dots.
Mnemonic: TWO LINES UP, TWO CROSS
ROWS, FOUR DOTS – ORDINARY PATTERN
978
陛
HEI
majesty, throne
L1
10 strokes
HEIKAMajesty
HEIKENimperial audience
RYŌHEIKAMajesties
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has /1907
‘earthen mound’, and CO 坒 as semantic and
phonetic, meaning ‘be lined up/in a row’, to
give ‘series of earthen steps’ (Ogawa, Tōdō).
Katō and Yamada take /here as ‘foothold’
(treating steps as providing firm footing), giving
‘footholds for climbing a hill’, and from this
Yamada posits ‘steps to the Imperial Palace’ as
an extended sense. OT1968:1068; TA1965:768;
KJ1970:836; YK1976:444. Suggest taking 坒 as
792 ‘compare’ and 64 ‘earth’.
Mnemonic: HIS MAJESTY’S THRONE
COMPARES TO AN EARTHEN HILL!?
979
L3
閉
11
HEI, tojiru,
shimaru/meru
close, shut
strokes
HEITENstore closing
HEIKŌdumbfounded
shimedasushut out
Bronze ; seal . 231 ‘gate, door’, and
139 (modern senses: ‘talent, age’, but see),
here in the sense ‘obstruct’, giving ‘close gates’
(Tōdō, Yamada). Alternative interpretations are
offered by Ogawa, who takes as phonetic
having associated sense ‘timber’, giving ‘close
off entrance with timber’, and Shirakawa, who
adopts a religious interpretation ( as semantic,
representing a piece of wood with prayer
receptacle attached). TA1965:770; YK1970:444;
OT1968:1056; SS1984:763. Suggest taking as
wooden prop.
Mnemonic: CLOSE GATE WITH WOODEN
PROP
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