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ing the head of an insect, with legs lined up
underneath, giving ‘crawling insect with many
legs’ (Ogawa); with this view, the top element
could alternatively be taken as representing
the insect’s body, incorporating the eyes. The
seal form in Shuowen takes the lower element
in as depicting two people, but a bronze
form is more suggestive of legs. Unfortunately,
comparison of the OBI form for with
OBI forms which include ‘person’/ 41
(e.g. 901 ‘multitude’) does not provide us
with a definitive answer on the appropriate
interpretation of this graph. TA1965:712-22;
GY2008:615; MS1995:v1:612-3. Suggest taking
in its meaning ‘day’.
Mnemonic: COMPARE DAYS IN TERMS OF
MULTITUDES OF INSECTS
1358
恨
KON, uramu
resent, regret
L1
9 strokes
KAIKONremorse
IKONgrudge
uramigoto grievance
Bronze ( 㫐 ) ; seal () . Though hard to
distinguish, the earlier bronze form equivalent
has an eye facing one way (to the left) and
the body facing the other way, taken to mean
‘be antagonistic’. At the seal stage, 164
‘heart, mind, feelings’ was added. One view
takes 281 (‘look back’, typically in anger)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘not readily
follow/comply’, giving ‘not readily follow/comply;
defiance’; and ‘resent, regret’ presumably
becomes an extended sense. Tōdō also takes
as phonetic, but with associated sense
‘persistently remain’, giving ‘scars remain in
the heart’, and hence ‘resent, regret’. Note: Mizukami
also lists another analysis for which
takes as 76 ‘eye’ over 198 ‘knife’, meaning
i] ‘tattoo (criminal) on rim of eye’ or ii] ‘gaze
unswervingly at one point’; Tōdō’s view of
follows ii]. MS1995:v2:914-5; KJ1970:410-11;
TA1965:706-7.
Mnemonic: STOP AND STARE WITH FEELINGS
OF RESENT AND REGRET
1359
婚
KON
marriage
L2
11 strokes
KEKKONmarriage
KON’YAKUengagement
MIKONSHA unmarried person
Bronze ; seal . Open to various interpretations.
One view (Gu) interprets as 37
‘woman’ and (NJK, meaning ‘dusk, dim, unclear’)
as semantic and phonetic. Gu takes
as comprising , here with the meaning ‘base;
go down’ (as an extended sense of 522
‘clan, family, mister’, a graph which originally
depicted a spoon with prong[s] for picking up
meat or similar, but see Note below) over 66
‘sun’, giving ‘sun goes down’; the sense ‘marry’
for is taken to result as an extended sense
based on the custom of weddings in ancient
times being held in the evening. Katō, though,
dismisses this as a popular misconception
(as does Schuessler), and treats the seal form
of as consisting of ‘woman’, plus
as phonetic with associated sense ‘phallus,
genitalia’. Shirakawa, alternatively, takes the
bronze form as depicting a ladle for wine,
used in celebrating the marriage ceremony.
A satisfactory interpretation of this graph is
elusive. Note: the posited meaning ‘go down’
noted above for may result from serving
as an abbreviation for similarly-shaped,
a CO graph which is itself understood with
meanings which include i] carving tool for
gouging or chiselling out the flat bottom of
a receptacle, and ii] flat land at the foot of a
hill; both these interpretations of are given
in Mizukami. GY2008:1347,682; KJ1970:411-
2; MS1995:v2:724-6; SS1984:327,613;
AS2007:289-90. We suggest taking in its
sense of ‘Mister’.
Mnemonic: WOMAN MARRIES HER ‘MISTER’
AS THE SUN GOES DOWN
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