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1133
褐
KATSU
brown, coarse cloth
L1
13 strokes
KASSHOKUbrown
KATTANlignite
KAPPUragged beggar
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 444
‘garment’, and / (‘stop and question/question
loudly’; see 1048), taken as phonetic by
several scholars (Shirakawa, Ogawa; sense not
specified), but it may alternatively serve here as
1134
轄
KATSU
control, linchpin
L1
17 strokes
KANKATSUjurisdiction
TŌKATSUcontrol
CHOKKATSUdirect control
1135
L1
且
5
katsu, SHO, SO
furthermore,
besides, and
strokes
katsumatamoreover
naokatsuand yet
KŌSHOfor a while
OBI ; bronze ; seal . Considered to be
based on a pictograph, but interpretations vary
regarding exactly what is depicted. One view
takes as meat in a tiered vessel, as an offering
(Ogawa); another takes as tomb with multiple
layers of earth piled up in a mound (Katō).
Alternatively, is seen by others as layers of
meat on a chopping-board (or stand), as the
original way of writing NJK ‘chopping-board’
1136
釜
kama, FU
kettle, cauldron
L1
10 strokes
CHAgamatea kettle
atogamareplacement/successor
okamamale homosexual (slang)
340 The Remaining 1130 Characters
an abbreviation of 1131 ‘vine’, giving original
meaning ‘garment made of coarse fiber’ – a
sense which the above scholars also agree
with. The meaning ‘brown’ is an extended
sense based on the color of such garments.
GY2008:1766; SS1984:115; OT1968:907. As with
1048, we suggest taking right hand part
as day 66, as slumped/sitting person, with
as corner.
Mnemonic: PERSON IN BROWN CLOTH
SLUMPED IN CORNER ALL DAY
Seal: ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 33 ‘carriage/vehicle’,
and 460 (‘harm, damage’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘stop, prevent’,
giving original meaning ‘linchpin’ (pin to keep
carriage wheels in place on axle); by extension,
‘control’. TA1965:599; OT1968:988.
Mnemonic: VEHICLE DAMAGED – OUT OF CONTROL
(Shirakawa, Tōdō, Gu). Given the shape of
many of the OBI forms (Mizukami gives several
dozen), however, yet another interpretation deserves
serious consideration, i.e. that the graph
originally depicted a phallus, and by extension
was used for what was later written 758
‘ancestor’ (Gu, Karlgren). Originally a pictograph,
was borrowed at an early stage as a
convenient way of writing several other words
or grammatical elements with more abstract
senses, including ‘moreover’, hence its meaning
in Japanese today. KJ1970:640; OT1968:18;
SS1984:428; TA1965:364-5; GY2008:158;
BK1957:31-2; AS2007:306.
Mnemonic: AND FURTHERMORE, THIS CAIRN
HAS THREE LAYERS AND A BASE
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Seal form is
listed in Shuowen, but only as an alternative
way of writing another, more complex graph
also meaning ‘cauldron, big cooking pot’. has
16 ‘metal’, with 216 (‘father’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘big’ (Mizukami) or ‘swell
up’ (Ogawa). DJ2009:v1:239; MS1995:v2:1484-5;
OT1968:1037.
Mnemonic: FATHER IS HOVERING OVER THE
METAL KETTLE