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1122
嚇
KAKU, odosu/kasu
threaten, menace
L1
17 strokes
IKAKUthreat
KAKUDOfury
IKAKUTEKIthreatening
A very late graph (Yupian). Has 22
‘mouth, speak’, and NJK (‘glowing red,
fiery’, [double ‘red’ 48] ) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as i] ‘very angry
voice’, giving ‘be angry, threaten’ (Ogawa),
or ii] ‘oppose, act contrarily’, giving ‘oppose
verbally’ (Katō). Both analyses indicate verbal
activity of a negative kind, and this is echoed
by Shirakawa, who treats as phonetic in
an onomatopoeic role, giving ‘rebuke in a
threatening way’. Schuessler suggests a possible
semantic as well as phonetic function
for here, with a progression from ‘glowing
red, fiery’ to ‘scary’. OT1968:198; KJ1970:187;
SS1984:109; AS2007:276.
Mnemonic: SPOKEN THREAT MAKES ONE SEE
RED TWICE OVER
1123
穫
KAKU
harvest, acquire
L1
18 strokes
SHŪKAKUharvest
TAKAKUgood crop
SHŪKAKUdakayield
Seal . This graph has 87 ‘grain (plant)’, and
(‘crested bird’, with 2003 ‘hand’; see 1121
and 468) as phonetic with associated sense
‘grasp firmly’, giving ‘take grain and harvest’;
sense subsequently generalized to ‘take,
acquire’. MS1995:v2:972-4,1118-9; KJ1970:328;
OT1968:738.
Mnemonic: HARVESTING GRAIN IS LIKE
CATCHING A BIRD IN THE HAND
1124
岳
GAKU, take
peak, imposing
L1
8 strokes
SANGAKUmountains
GAKUFUfather-in-law
UNZENdakeMt Unzen
OBI ; seal () . The OBI form (only)
consists of 26 ‘mountain, hill’, with an
upper element that is taken as representing
either i] another mountain or hill (Katō,
Ogawa), or ii] a sheep’s horns, and hence
‘sheep’ (Shirakawa; see 426), either way
giving ‘mountain, mountain peak’ (sometimes
thought to refer to five specific peaks
in China). Interpretation ii] above, involving
sheep, might appear bizarre, but Shirakawa
points to a possible connection with the
Qiang (), a nomadic, sheep-herding people
who inhabited part of western China in an-
cient times, and apparently regarded hilltops
and mountain tops as sacred. Shuowen notes
as the older, orthodox form, and as the
more recent graph, but in fact the reverse
is the case, as the earliest occurrences of
are in seal script. consists of 26, with
1353 (‘prison’) as a phonetic with the associated
sense of ‘project steeply’, thus giving
‘steep mountain’, but traditionally – through
the influence of the treatment in Shuowen
– and have been treated down to the
present as alternative forms of the same
graph, even though this is not actually
the case. MS1995:v1:420-22; DJ2009:742;
KJ1970:188; OT1968:302; SS1984:110-11. We
suggest splitting into 1203 ‘hill’ and
26 ‘mountain’.
Mnemonic: A HILL ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN
– WHAT AN IMPOSING PEAK!
The Remaining 1130 Characters 337