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1118
郭
KAKU
quarters, enclosure
L1
11 strokes
RINKAKUoutlines
JŌKAKUcitadel
YŪKAKUpleasure quarters
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 376 ‘inhabited
place, village’ in its common form as
right-hand element, and 1218 ‘receive, keep’
in its original sense ‘fortified city walls’. in the
sense ‘fortified city walls’ is taken as an abbre-
1119
L2
較
KAKU, KŌ, kuraberu
compare
13 strokes
HIKAKUcomparison
KŌRYŌcomparison
HIKAKUTEKIcomparatively
viation of a more complex older graph (Katō,
Qiu). Overall resultant meaning is ‘enclosed
fortified area’ (included in Tōdō’s word-family
‘framework/enclose with a framework’), generalized
to ‘enclosure, quarters’. QX2000:129;
DJ2009:v2:528-9; TA1965:407-09; OT1968:37;
KJ1970:280-81; MS1995:v2:1314-6; SS1984:105.
Take as 27 ‘child’, cover , and entrance
22.
Mnemonic: CHILD COVERS ENTRANCE TO
VILLAGE ENCLOSURE
Bronze ; seal . Bronze and seal forms have
33 ‘vehicle, carriage’, and ‘mix, cross, join’
as semantic and phonetic (was later replaced
by 128 ‘mix, exchange’), thus ‘carriage
rails’, of help when mounting and dismounting.
The sense ‘compare’ is probably a loan use, or
based on comparing rails. OT1968:984,632;
MS1995:v2:1268-9; KJ1970:171.
Mnemonic: A MIXTURE OF VEHICLES MAKES
IT EASY TO COMPARE
1120
隔
KAKU, hedataru/teru
separate, interpose
L1
13 strokes
KAKURIquarantine
KANKAKUspacing
KAKUSHŪfortnightly
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 1907 (as
left-hand element) ‘hill, terraced slopes’, and CO
(‘three-legged cauldron [with hollow legs]’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘separate’,
giving ‘separate with terraced slopes/hills’; later
generalized to simply ‘separate’. OT1968:1073;
DJ2009:v3:1188; MS1995:v2:1482-3. Suggest
take as lidded pot on stand.
Mnemonic: SEPARATED BY HILL LIKE A
LIDDED ROUND POT ON A STAND
1121
獲
KAKU, eru
obtain, gain, seize
L1
16 strokes
KAKUTOKUacquisition
GYOKAKUfishing
emonoprey
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has ‘dog’ 19,
and ‘catch bird’ 468 (originally, crested bird,
with 2003 ‘hand’) as semantic and phonetic,
giving ‘catch wild prey using dogs (in hunting)’;
the graph suggests the prey was originally
just birds. Shirakawa lists bronze forms and
several OBI forms as predecessors of (Ma
also lists OBI); all lack as determinative.
KJ1970:328; MS1995:v2:1118-9; OT1968:648;
MR2007:421.
Mnemonic: DOG’S LEFT, SO HAVE TO SEIZE
CRESTED BIRD BY HAND
336 The Remaining 1130 Characters