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1354
L1
駒
koma
colt, chess piece,
bridge (violin etc),
frame (film)
15 strokes
komaGETAlow clogs
komadorirobin
tegoma shōgi piece
Bronze ; seal . Has 210 ‘horse’, and
683 (‘phrase, clause’,) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘small’, giving ‘small horse,
colt’; Gu says original meaning was ‘two-year
old horse’. ‘Game-board piece’, as in chess, go,
etc., which represents Japanese-only usage,
can perhaps be seen as a further extended
sense. It is unclear as to how its other meanings
came about. MS1995:v2:1468-9; GY2008:758;
OT1968:1125.
Mnemonic: ‘COLT’ IS A PHRASE APPLIED TO
A HORSE
1355
L2
込
komu/meru
put in, crowded
5 strokes
mikomiprospect
hitogomicrowd
komemono stuffing
No early forms, being a kokuji (), i.e. a
graph devised in Japan on the basis of the
main formational principles underlying the
vast corpus of graphs devised in China. Consists
of 85 ‘walk, move’, and 67 ‘enter,
put in’, giving ‘be crowded’ (the result of many
people entering). OT1968:992.
Mnemonic: IT GETS CROWDED WHEN PEO-
PLE MOVE TO ENTER
1356
頃
koro
time, around (time)
L2
11 strokes
tegoro naconvenient
SANJIgoroabout 3 o’clock
chikagoro nowadays
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Original
meaning of the graph was ‘tilt/incline the
head’ (1264), consisting of , originally
probably depicting a bent, withered leg, then
borrowed for ’ladle, spoon’, plus 103 ‘head’.
Later, was borrowed to write time-related
words such as ‘recently’ and ‘when’, the latter
providing the basis for its meaning in Japanese.
OT1968:1100; GY2008:602; TA1965:508-
9. Suggest taking as ‘variant’ 32 ‘seven’,
and a different take on ‘head’.
Mnemonic: LET’S HEAD OFF AROUND SEVEN
O’CLOCK
1357
L1
昆
8
KON
multitude, insect,
descendants
strokes
KONCHŪinsects
KONBUkelp
KŌKON descendants
OBI ; bronze ; seal . Views diverge. One
takes the lower element as people gathered
together 792 (originally, two people in
line; ‘compare’) beneath the ‘sun’ 66, giving
‘people gather beneath the sun’ (Tōdō, Gu).
Tōdō also takes more specifically as ‘people
gather beneath the sun in a round group’,
adding ‘round’ on the basis of word-family association.
Alternatively, it is seen as represent-
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