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1177
既
KI, sude (ni)
already, finished
L1
10 strokes
KISEIready-made
KIKONSHAmarried person
KITEI noestablished
OBI ; seal ; traditional forms , . Has
CO ‘food vessel piled with food’ and ,
CO graph taken as originally meaning either
‘choke after eating’ or ‘eat one’s fill’, as semantic
and phonetic, thus ‘finish eating’ (Qiu,
Ogawa) or ‘eat one’s fill’ (Katō). Schuessler
takes meaning (OBI stage onwards) as ‘to
complete, have done’ as a marker of completed
action; which would mean ‘already’ is an
extended sense. The shape is found in the
calligraphic tradition (which often features
such variants) from Sui dynasty (581-618) onwards.
QX2000:195; OT1968:458; KJ1970:183;
AS2007:298; MS1995:v1:604-6.; FC1976:1022-
4. Take left-side as unlidded food 163 and
right-side as long legged man.
Mnemonic: LONG LEGGED MAN HAS
ALREADY FINISHED UNLIDDED FOOD
1178
飢
KI, ueru
starve, hunger
L1
10 strokes
KIGAhunger, starvation
uejinideath by starvation
KIKINfamine
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 163 ‘eat’,
and 845 (NJK; originally ‘table, stand’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘sparse, deficient’,
thus ‘food is sparse’, and hence ‘be hungry’.
DJ2009:v2:425; OT1968:107; TA1965:695-8.
Mnemonic: FOOD ON THE TABLE, BUT STILL
STARVING
1179
鬼
KI, oni
devil, demon, ghost
L1
10 strokes
KIKAIrealm of the dead
onibabahag, witch
onigokkotag (the game)
1180
亀
KI, kame
turtle, tortoise
L1
11 strokes
KITŌpenis
KIRETSUcrack, fissure
umigamesea turtle
OBI ; seal . The OBI forms commonly
depict a kneeling figure wearing a large mask;
the graph is taken to represent the spirit of a
deceased person. The element was added
later at the seal stage; its function is not entirely
clear, but one suggestion is that it was added as
a phonetic (Katō). OT1968:1139; KJ1970:230-32;
MS1995:v2:1486-8. Suggest taking the graph as
a whole as a deviation from ‘think’ 147.
Mnemonic: DISTORTED THINKING LEADS TO
DEVILISH THOUGHTS
OBI ; seal ; traditional . Originally,
pictograph of a turtle or tortoise seen from
above or from the side; from the seal stage
onwards, the side view predominated as the
basis for this graph. In broad terms, the modern
simplified form may be said to retain the basic
profile of the seal version. MS1995:v2:1530-31;
MR2007:492; OT1968:1175. We suggest taking
the pictograph in its whole modern form as a
mnemonic.
Mnemonic: TURTLE HAS TWO SQUARE
SHELLS WITH CRACKS, HEAD AND TAIL
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