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1068
岡
oka, KŌ
hill, knoll
L3
8 strokes
okamebystander, onlooker
OkayamaKENOkayama Prefecture
Okamotoa surname
Bronze ; seal . Has 26 ‘mountain,
hill’, with as variant of /570 ‘net’ as
phonetic with associated sense taken either as
i] ‘elongated place strung out like a net’, thus
1069
L1
憶
OKU
think, remember
16 strokes
KIOKUmemory
TSUIOKUreminiscence
OKUSOKUspeculation
Late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 164 ‘heart,
mind’, with 246 ‘mind, thought’; the latter is
treated in one analysis as phonetic with associated
sense ‘be stagnant/blocked’, giving ‘one’s
mind is stagnant’, i.e. things such as information
or feelings are stored (Katō). However, in
‘elongated mountain peak’, and by extension
‘ridge, hill’ (Mizukami, Katō), or ii] ‘swell, rise’,
thus ‘hill/mountain ridges risen up’ (Ogawa).
Qiu also notes that when is used as phonetic,
it is written , as in this graph. KJ1970:159;
QX2000:181; MS1995:v1:418-9. For central part
we suggest using 1141 (‘can’) as ‘strange’
variant.
Mnemonic: MANY STRANGE CANS ARE
NETTED IN THE HILLS
origin also had much the same meaning (see
246), and it appears that was later devised
mainly to represent the sense ‘remember’, and
was used more for ‘thought, intention, will’.
Schuessler treats the words represented by
these two graphs in early Chinese as nearhomophones
(: ‘thought, intention, will’, cf.
: ‘one’s thoughts; to remember’), as does
Tōdō. KJ1970:17; OT1968:389; BK1957:252;
AS2007:570; TA1965:135-8.
Mnemonic: A THOUGHT IN THE HEART IS A
THOUGHT REMEMBERED
1070
臆
OKU
timidity, fear
L1
17 strokes
OKUBYŌmonocoward
OKUSOKUspeculation
OKUMEN nakubrazenly
Seal ( ), ; late graph (Shuowen). Shuowen
heading has 209 ‘flesh/ meat, body’, and
1072 (‘knife’) as phonetic (associated sense
unclear [Gu]); it notes the now standard form
with 246 ‘thought’ as alternative; Tōdō takes
here as having associated sense ‘suppress’,
giving ‘suppress bodily feelings’. Later used in
extended senses such as ‘heart, mind, one’s
thoughts’. ‘Timid, cowardly’ is Japanese-only
usage. GY2008:1948; OT1968:828.
Mnemonic: THINKING ABOUT FLESH MAKES
SOME PEOPLE TIMID
1071
虞
osore, GU
fear, anxiety
L1
13 strokes
YŪGUdistress
FUGUunexpected
GUBIJINSŌpoppy
OBI ; bronze ; seal . Has ‘tiger’
297/1301 (here, ‘tiger-like creature’), with
1311 (‘give’,) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘make up a pair’ or ‘(playfully?) bite each
other’, giving ‘gentle tiger-like female animal’
(Mizukami). The present meaning seems to be
confusion with 2086 ‘concern’. KJ1985:538;
MS1995:v2:1140-1; OT1968:882.
Mnemonic: TIGER GIVES ONE FEAR AND ANXIETY
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