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1030
L1
茨
9
ibara, SHI
thatch, briar, bramble,
thorn
strokes
IbarakiKEN*Ibaraki Prefecture
ibaramushirose bug
Ibarakicity in Osaka-fu
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 53 ‘plant,
vegetation’, and 308 (‘next’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘arrange’ (or ‘stop’),
giving ‘arrange plant material (on a roof)’, i.e.
‘thatch’. is regarded as the original way
of writing . Reflecting the trend in script
development, from depicting the concrete to
representing the abstract, it is believed that
was the original way of writing ‘miscanthus’
(and similar plants), after which the graph was
borrowed for its sound value to represent ‘next’,
with being added to indicate usage when
in the sense ‘miscanthus’. Present meanings
now include ‘thorn, bramble’. MS1995:696-7;
DJ2009:v1:78; KJ1970:181-2.
Mnemonic: THE NEXT PLANT AFTER THATCH
IS BRIAR
1031
L1
芋
imo
potato
6 strokes
satoimotaro
imogaicone shell
yakiimobaked potato
Bronze ; seal . Has ‘plant, grass’ 53,
and (NJK, originally pictograph of artefact
of curved wood [variant shapes include 亐 ])
as phonetic with associated sense ‘big, big
leaves’, giving ‘taro, sweet potato’ (a plant
with big, heart-shaped leaves). In modern
times, sense extended to ‘potato’ in general.
MS1995:v2:1106-7,28-30; OT1968:842;
KJ1970:70. Suggest taking as a peg.
Mnemonic: PEG OUT WHERE POTATO PLANTS
ARE TO BE PUT
1032
L1
咽
9
IN, musebu/ru/ppoi,
nodo
throat, choke
strokes
INKŌthroat
museppoistuffy
INTŌpharynx
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 22 ‘mouth;
speak’, and 643 (‘cause, depend on’; orig
meaning possibly related to confinement)
as phonetic with associated sense taken as i]
‘drink’, giving ‘drink’, and by extension ‘throat’
(Ogawa), or ii] ‘be blocked’, giving ‘choke’ (Tōdō);
Gu takes ‘be blocked, choke’ as a loan usage.
OT1968:180; TA1965:787; GY2008:847. Suggest
take as 56 ‘large’ and 84 ‘enclosure’, as
well as ‘cause’.
Mnemonic: CAUSE OF CHOKING MOUTH IS
THROAT BEING LARGELY ENCLOSED
1033
姻
IN
marriage
L1
9 strokes
KON’INmarriage
INSEKIin-laws
INZOKUBATSUnepotism
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has ‘woman’
37, and 643 ‘depend on, cause’ as semantic
and phonetic, meaning that which a woman
depends on, i.e. ‘groom’s family’ and by association
‘marriage’. KJ1970:62-3; OT1968:257;
SS1984:31. Take 56 as ‘big man’, and 84
‘enclosure, confined’.
Mnemonic: BIG MAN CONFINED BY WOMAN
AFTER MARRIAGE
The Remaining 1130 Characters 313