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1274<br />

鯨<br />

GEI, kujira<br />

whale<br />

L1<br />

19 strokes<br />

GEIYUwhale oil<br />

HOGEIwhaling<br />

yamakujirawild boar meat<br />

Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). No Shuowen<br />

entry heading, but noted as variant of 䲔 ; later,<br />

was adopted as standard form (listed as<br />

such in Zhengzitong). 109 ‘fish’, with 110<br />

(‘capital’) as phonetic with associated sense<br />

‘big’, giving ‘big fish’, thus ‘whale’. Noted in<br />

Yupian as ‘king among fish’. OT1968:1145;<br />

SS1984:244-5; GY2008:1899; ZZ1671:v2:1425<br />

Mnemonic: THE WHALE IS A CAPITAL ‘FISH’<br />

1275<br />

L1<br />

隙<br />

13<br />

GEKI, suki, hima<br />

opening, gap, space,<br />

crack<br />

strokes<br />

sukimacrevice, opening<br />

KŪGEKIgap, opening<br />

temahimalabor and time<br />

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