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1041
浦
ura, HO
bay, inlet, coast
L1
10 strokes
Urawa-ShiUrawa City
urajicoastal road
urazatocoastal village
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42 water,
and NJK (orig possibly ‘use ax’, now means
‘first time’) as phonetic with associated sense
as i] ‘side’, giving ‘water’s edge’ (Katō), or ii] ‘flat’,
giving ‘flat land next to water’ (Ogawa). Specific
senses ‘inlet, bay’ reflect Japanese usage rather
than Chinese (flat land near ocean or river).
KJ1970:856; OT1968:580.
Mnemonic: SEE WATER FOR FIRST TIME AT
COASTAL BAY
1042
L1
詠
12
EI, yomu
poem, recite,
compose
strokes
EIKAcomposition
EISŌpoetry draft
EISHIepic
Bronze () ; seal (Shuowen) . Bronze
form has 22 ‘speak, mouth’, and 644
(‘long’) as semantic and phonetic, giving ‘speak
in a drawn-out manner’, as when reading out
Chinese and Japanese poetry. Shuowen has
as the entry heading, but with also noted
as an alternative form. MS1995:v2:1190-91;
OT1968:923; KJ1970:78-9.
Mnemonic: SPEAK FOR LONG TIME WHEN
RECITING POETRY
1043
影
EI, kage
shadow, image, light
L1
15 strokes
EIKYŌinfluence
EIZŌshadow, image
kageMUSHAwarrior’s double
Seal () ; itself is not included in
Shuowen, but Shirakawa notes it reported as
occurring in a Han period stele. Another scholar
(Katō) accounts as follows for the addition of
115: originally written 494 (‘bright’), comprising
66 ‘sun’, with 110 (‘capital’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘light’; later, though,
129 (‘light’) became associated with the
Yang principle (positive, strong, male), and
with the Yin principle (overcast, dark, negative,
female), and at this point the determinative
element (posited meanings vary considerably:
‘light, adorn’ [Ogawa], ‘feathery’ ([Qiu]) was
added. The possibility of a semantic association
of ‘shadow’ with ‘light’ (shadow cast by light on
an object) is noted by Schuessler. SS1984:46;
KJ1970:83; AS2007:576-7. Suggest taking as
streams of rays of sunlight, and as ‘sun’ 66
over ‘capital’ 110.
Mnemonic: STREAMING RAYS OF SUNLIGHT
CAST SHADOWS IN THE CAPITAL
1044
鋭
EI, surudoi
sharp, keen
L2
15 strokes
EIRI nasharp, keen
EIKAKUacute angle
SEIEIelite, ‘crack’
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
form has (NJK ‘shaman’ 553) as right-hand
element. Has 16 ‘metal’, and (analyses
include ‘open mouth with laughter, glad’ [Gu,
Schuessler,], and ‘one who pleases the deities’
[Ogawa], ‘shaman’ [Katō]) as phonetic with
associated sense typically taken as ‘sharp,
small and sharp’, giving ‘sharp edged tool/
316 The Remaining 1130 Characters