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1312
L1
娯
GO
pleasure, amusement
10 strokes
GORAKUpleasure
KANGOpleasure
GORAKUHINplaything
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .
Has 37 ‘woman’, and 1311 (‘give’), taken
in one view as phonetic with associated sense
‘speak’, giving ‘talk in enjoyable way with a
woman’, and by extension ‘pleasure’. Another
view takes as a figure singing and dancing,
serving in as semantic and phonetic to give
overall sense ‘woman singing and dancing’,
and by extension ‘pleasure’ (Gu). TA1965:430;
OT1968:258; GY2008:1163.
Mnemonic: WOMAN GIVES PLEASURE AND
AMUSEMENT
1313
悟
GO, satoru
perceive, discern
L1
10 strokes
GOSEIwisdom
KAKUGOmental resolve
satorienlightenment
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 164
‘heart, mind’, and (NJK ‘oneself’; see Note
below) as phonetic with associated sense taken
as i] ‘clear’, giving ‘mind becomes clear’ (Katō,
Ogawa), or ii] ‘call to mind’, giving ‘something
occurs to one’ (Tōdō). Note: consists of
22 ‘mouth; speak’, and 21 (‘five’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘exchange’, giving
‘exchange words, converse’ (the original way
of writing ‘tell, speak’ 124). KJ1970:395;
OT1968:372; TA1965:427.
Mnemonic: WITH FIVE MOUTHS TALKING,
ONE CAN PERCEIVE THEIR FEELINGS
1314
碁
GO
go (the game)
L1
13 strokes
GOishigo stone
GOBANgo board
GOuchigo player
Late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 47 ‘stone’, and
269 (orig. pictograph of winnowing basket) as
phonetic with associated sense taken as i] ‘small’,
giving ‘board game pieces’ (Katō), or ii] ‘square
stand’ (historically), giving ‘stand used for playing
with stones’, and then ‘board game pieces’ by
extension (Ogawa). The graph has a parallel
structure to , which appears in Shuowen as the
original arrangement of the components used
for writing 1182 ‘Oriental chess’. While the
two games are different, note that the one term
KISHI can denote a player of either game.
OT1968:712; KJ1970:239; DJ2009:v2:482.
Mnemonic: THE GAME ‘GO’ INVOLVES
STONES AND WINNOWING BASKETS
1315
勾
KŌ
bent, slope, capture
L1
4 strokes
KŌINarrest
KŌBAIslope
KŌRYŪdetention
OBI and seal forms ( 丩 ) , ; OBI and seal
forms ( ) , . itself is a late, post-Shuowen
graph of difficult etymology. Old forms (OBI,
bronze) listed by Ogawa for are taken by him
as originally showing a hook caught on something,
but Mizukami takes a different view, not as
the predecessor of but of 丩 898, a CO graph
which he takes as string or vines (or similar)
intertwined. Shirakawa, on the other hand, treats
and 683 ‘phrase, clause’ as originally having
been the same graph, as does Gu, who regards
as a popular variant for . Qiu is cautious
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