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992
L1
模
MO, BO
copy, model, mold
14 strokes
MOKEImodel, mold
MOSHAcopy, copying
KIBOscale
Seal ; late form (Shuowen). Has 73 ‘wood,
tree’, and 809 (originally depicted sun setting
993
訳
YAKU, wake
translation, meaning
L1
11 strokes
HON’YAKUtranslation
TSŪYAKUinterpreting
iiwakeexcuse
Seal ; traditional ; late graph (Shuowen).
Has 118 ‘words; speak’, and (original
meaning disputed; provisionally, ‘watch/ob-
994
郵
YŪ
mail, post
L3
11 strokes
YŪBINmail, post
YŪSŌmailing
YŪTAImailbag
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has right-hand
determinative 376 (full form: ) ‘village,
settlement’, and 918 (‘hang down’, ‘dangle’)
995
優
YŪ, yasashii, sugureru
superior, gentle, actor
L3
17 strokes
YŪSHŪexcellence
YŪSENpriority
JOYŪactress
996
幼
YŌ, osanai
infant, infancy
L3
5 strokes
YŌJIinfant
YŌJIinfancy
osanagoinfant
amongst trees or vegetation) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘law, pattern’, giving ‘wooden
frame’ for making something (Ogawa says ‘as
a copy’); ‘model; copy’ are extended senses.
KJ1970:775; YK1976:471; OT1968:520. Suggest
taking as ‘plant’ 53, ‘sun’ 66, and ‘big’
56.
Mnemonic: PLANT COPIES MODEL TREE AND
GROWS BIG IN THE SUN
serve criminals’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘change’ (Ogawa says ‘extract’), giving
‘change words/language’, and so ‘translate’.
‘Meaning’ is an associated or extended
sense. YK1976:475; KJ1970:93-4; SS1984:50;
OT1968:923. Take right part of modern form as
person carrying backpack.
Mnemonic: PERSON TRANSLATING CARRIES
A LOAD OF WORDS IN BACKPACK
as phonetic with associated sense taken either
as i] ‘flag fluttering /hanging down’, giving ‘flag
with orders, standing in village’ (Katō, Yamada),
or as ii] ‘remote region’, giving ‘village in remote
region’, with sense extended to ‘village serving
as relay station’ (Ogawa, Shirakawa). By
extension, ‘mail’. KJ1970:31; YK1976:478-9;
OT1968:1022; SS1984:837.
Mnemonic: MAILBAG LEFT DANGLING IN VILLAGE
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 41 ‘person’,
and 2045 (‘grief, sorrow’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken as ‘dance with
gestures’ (Tōdō and Ogawa also posit the
sense ‘elegant’), giving ‘dancing person’ and by
extension ‘actor’. KJ1970:36-7; YK1976:479-80;
TA1965:229; OT1968:83.
Mnemonic: GENTLE ACTOR’S SUPERIOR
DISPLAY OF PERSON’S GRIEF
OBI ; seal . Has 78 ‘strength’, with 29
(‘delicate/fine thread’; originally, pictograph
of two fine threads intertwined [Mizukami])
as phonetic with associated sense ‘small, tiny’,
giving ‘weak in strength’, and by extension
‘very young’. MS1995:v1:446-9; YK1976:481-2;
KJ1970:32; OT1968:124.
Mnemonic: INFANT SHORT ON STRENGTH,
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