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1265
L1
携
KEI, tazusawaru/eru
carry, participate
13 strokes
KEITAI-portable
RENKEIin concert with
TEIKEI cooperation, link
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has 34 ‘hand’ and 雟 (type of bird;
see Note below) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘let hang down’ (Ogawa says ‘link,
keep [on rope’ etc.]’), thus ‘hang down from/
carry in the hands’. , a popular historical
abbreviated form of 雟 , now has official
status. Note: 雟 is treated by Katō as made
by 324 ‘bird’, with top element taken not
as 26 ‘mountain/hill’ but as similar-shaped
, representing cranial feathers (not as
‘sprouting plant’); the lower element represents
a graphic merging of what in earlier
stages of the script was written two different
ways, one being a pictograph of a window,
the other seen as buttocks and anus/vagina.
In the graph 雟 under discussion here, Katō
takes as representing, basically, buttocks
and anus (see 333), and by extension – with
regard to a bird – as ‘tail-end’, with tail feathers
fanning out (noting the shape in ),
thus ‘swallow’; Ogawa also takes as ‘swallow’.
‘Participate’ derives from having one’s hands
occupied, suggesting getting involved.
MS1995:v1:254-5,234-5; KJ1970:349-50;
TA1965:504-8; OT1968:425,1081. Take as
plump buttocks.
Mnemonic: CARRY PLUMP-BUTTOCKED BIRD
IN HAND
1266
L1
継
13
KEI, tsugu, mamainherit,
follow,
join, step-, patch
strokes
KEIZOKU continuation
mamakostepchild
tsugitashi extension
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Originally
written . Bronze form shows several short
lengths of thread (or skeins), with other
components, which some scholars make no
comment on. These other components are
as follows: i] a horizontal line midway, and
ii] two short lines bottom right. Katō takes i]
to signify joined threads, and seems to take
ii] to show repetition. Shirakawa, however,
takes (facing right, as here) as ‘cut threads’,
as does Gu. Seal form likewise has 29
‘thread’ added as determinative, giving ‘join
threads’. By extension ‘follow, patch, inherit’.
MS1995:v2:1026-7; KJ1970:346; OT1968:779;
SS1984:236; GY2008:1173,1311. Take as
220 ‘rice’ in corner.
Mnemonic: FOLLOW JOINED THREADS TO
INHERIT RICE IN CORNER
1267
L1
詣
KEI, mōde, mairi
visit to temple/shrine
13 strokes
SANKEIshrine/temple visit
hatsumōdeNew Year shrine visit
ZŌKEI learning, attainments
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 118
‘words/speak’, and 1401 (‘gist’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘go to, arrive’ at important
place such as Court, thus ‘visit respectfully’;
Shirakawa takes as ‘worship deities’. In Japanese,
more used in sense ‘visit a shrine/temple’.
GY2008:737-8,303,11; SS1984:236; KJ1970:796.
Take as sitting person, as ‘day’ 66.
Mnemonic: PERSON SITS SPEAKING ALL DAY
IN SHRINE/TEMPLE VISIT
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