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1034
淫
IN, midara na
lewd, indecent, excess
L1
11 strokes
INRANlechery
IN’YOKUsexual desire
TAINlustfulness
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42
‘water, liquid’, and 㸒 (itself comprising [
1739] normally ‘claw’, but here ‘hand’, with
777 [spindle] as phonetic with associated
sense ‘want’, giving ‘take what one wants’
[Katō]) taken as phonetic with associated sense
interpreted variously, as follows: i] ‘ooze out’; ii]
‘water soaks in’ (Mizukami lists both i] and ii]);
iii] ‘put in with some strength/forcefully’; iv]
‘heavily indulge in’ (Mizukami). All these interpretations
are seen to involve a connotation of
‘excess’. Associated senses i] to iii] above give
overall meaning ‘water oozes out’, ‘water soaks
in’, while iv] gives ‘be heavily addicted to evil
ways’; the latter is probably a later meaning, but
now main one. KJ1970:64-5; MS1995:v2:756-7;
OT1968:583; AS2007:573.
Mnemonic: HANDLING SPINDLE IN WATER
SEEN AS EXCESSIVELY LEWD
1035
L1
1036
隠
IN, kakureru/su
hide
L1
14 strokes
INKYOretirement
INJAhermit
kakureGArefuge
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional . Has
() 1907 ‘hill, piled earth’, and (CO, ‘be sad/
1037
L1
陰
11
INKIgloom, sadness
INBUprivate parts
kageguchibackbiting
韻
IN
rhyme, tone
19 strokes
INBUNpoetry
INRITSUrhythm
ON’INphoneme
IN, kage
shadow, secret,
negative, dark
strokes
Seal . Has () 1907 ‘hill, piled-up earth’,
and (itself the earliest way of writing ) as
semantic and phonetic, meaning ‘dark’, giving
‘dark side of a hill’, and hence ‘shade, shadow’.
By extension, ‘secret’. In Chinese culture, also
denotes the dark, negative principle (yin)
in contrast to the bright, positive one (
yang; see 429). Mizukami lists bronze equivalents
also. MS1995:v2:1396-7; OT1968:1068;
TA1965:815-23. Suggest take right side as
138 ‘now’ and NJK ‘say, tell’ (also ‘cloud’: see
83).
Mnemonic: IN THE DARK SHADOWS OF THE
HILLS WE CAN NOW TELL SECRETS
in anguish, lament’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘hide’, giving ‘hide on a hill’; sense later
generalized to ‘hide’. Shirakawa, in contrast,
adopts a characteristically idiosyncratic, ritualistic
interpretation. OT1968:1074; KJ1970:62;
ZY2009:v2:363; SS1984:34-5. Suggest take both
and as hands, with 164 ‘heart/feelings’.
Mnemonic: HIDE IN THE HILLS, BOTH HANDS
ON HEART
Seal ; late graph (later version of Shuowen).
Has 6 ‘sound’, and 248 (originally,
‘round-necked vessel’; now ‘member, official’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘harmonize;
rounded, mild’, giving ‘harmonious/mild sound’.
KJ1970:57; OT1968:1100; SS1984:36.
Mnemonic: OFFICIAL’S RHYME SOUNDS TO
HAVE TONE TO IT
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