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1229
L1
仰
GYŌ, KŌ, aogu, ōse
look up, respect, state
6 strokes
GYŌTENamazement
SHINKŌcreed, faith
GYŌGYŌshiigrandiose
Seal ( ) ; seal () . Older graph is
analyzed as ‘person kneeling’ 41 in front of
someone standing (Mizukami takes as ‘person
standing up tall’), giving ‘look up at and greet
(an arriving guest)’. Later graph has additional
‘person’ element (41); this is believed
not to represent an extra third person, but a
way to distinguish it from another similar character
( 1273 ‘greet’). MS1995:v1:48-50,176-8;
KJ1970:179-80; OT1968:50.
Mnemonic: KNEELING PERSON LOOKING UP
AT OTHERS WITH RESPECT
1230
L1
暁
GYŌ, akatsuki
dawn, light, event
12 strokes
GYŌTENdawn
TSŪGYŌconversancy
GYŌSEIVenus, rarity
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .
Has 66 ‘sun’, with CO (‘tall person’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken as ‘become
bright, white’, giving ‘light of the sun becomes
clear’, i.e. ‘dawn’. may well also lend a semantic
element in the idea of tall, indicating rising
high. Dawn is also an event. Note: consists
of 垚 ‘earth piled up high’, with ‘person with
head above others’, giving ‘tall person’, and by
extension ‘outstanding person’. OT1968:470;
KJ1970:282; TA1965:266; MS1995:v1:274-5. See
also 539 ‘burn’, which we suggest taking by
association to remember 1230.
Mnemonic: SUN HAS DAWNED, BUT NOT
QUITE BURNING HEAT
1231
L1
凝
16
GYŌ, koru/rasu
stiff, engrossed, fixed,
elaborate
strokes
GYŌSHIstare
koriSHŌfastidiousness
kotta elaborate
1232
巾
KIN, haba
cloth, rag, width
L1
3 strokes
KINCHAKUpurse, pouch
FUKINdishcloth
kohaba narrow width
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). The seal
equivalent of is included in Shuowen, but
not as a main heading, only as an alternative
form for ‘ice’ in popular usage. has 401
‘ice’ (originally, pictograph of cracks or irregularities
in ice), and 848 (originally ‘child stands
unsteadily’, now ‘doubt’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘remain still’, giving ‘ice forms and
stays still’. By extension, ‘stiff; engrossed, fixed’.
‘Elaborate’ may relate to patterns of ice-cracks.
DJ2009:v3:935; KJ1970:248; OT1968:106.
Mnemonic: DOUBT ICE IS STIFF
OBI ; seal . Originally, pictograph of a
scrap of cloth with an upper end (symbolized
by the longer vertical line) to tuck into the belt
or waist sash. MS1995:v1:434-5; OT1968:313;
KJ1970:286; MR2007:580.
Mnemonic: A TRIDENT MADE OF CLOTH!?
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