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1599
扇
SEN, ōgi, aogu
fan
L1
10 strokes
SENSU(folding) fan
SENPŪKIelectric fan
ōgigatafan-shaped
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Analyses differ
in a minor way. In one view (Ogawa, Tōdō),
consists of 120 ‘gate, door’ and 82 ‘wings’
to signify the leaves of a gate or door which
open and close, in much the same way as
wings of a bird or insect move up and down
in flight. By extension, on the basis of the back
and forth motion, ‘fan’. Alternatively, taken as
combining with as an abbreviation of
, NJK, another graph also meaning ‘wings’
(Katō; same overall meaning as in the preceding
view); this latter analysis follows that put
forward in Shuowen. OT1968:399; TA1965:539;
KJ1970:627.
Mnemonic: WINGS OF A DOOR ACT AS FAN
1600
L1
栓
SEN
stopper; plug; tap
10 strokes
SENnukicorkscrew
KYŪSUISENwater tap
SHŌKASENhydrant
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Defined in Yupian
as ‘wooden peg’. Has 73 ‘wood, tree’, and
347 ‘completely’ (in Tōdō’s word-family ‘make
complete’), giving ‘piece of wood to make complete’,
and hence ‘stopper, bung’ etc. In Japanese
usage only, also refers to a type of tall tree
grown in Hokkaido. TA1965:574-5; OT1968:505;
GY2008:1006-7.
Mnemonic: WOODEN STOPPER COMPLETELY
PLUGS THE TAP
1601
旋
SEN
rotate, turn
L1
11 strokes
SENKAIrotation
SENBANlathe
SHŪSENmediation
OBI ; seal . Has 1574 ‘leg’, and 353
(‘streamer’, pictograph of flag fluttering on
pole) as phonetic with associated sense ‘go
round’, giving ‘return by making legs go round’.
The nuance ‘return’ is thought to derive from
flag fluttering on a pole and in rapid movement
going back to its original position. Katō notes
that one OBI occurrence has 131 ‘road; go’ as
an additional element, and so takes the original
meaning slightly differently as ‘return along
the road one has travelled’. MS1995:v1:600-
04,v2:884-6; OT1968:676; KJ1970:101-2.
Mnemonic: FLUTTERING FLAG CAUSES LEGS
TO TURN AROUND
1602
L1
煎
13
SEN, iru
broil, roast,
boil, infuse, decoct
strokes
煎 SENBEI(rice-)cracker
煎 SENCHAgreen tea
煎 iritamagoscrambled egg
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 8
‘fire’, and 177 (‘before, front’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken in one view as
‘make complete’, giving ‘make complete with
fire, roast, toast’ (Ogawa, Tōdō). Gu, though,
takes the original sense as to cook by heating
with liquid added, probably on the basis of
later commentary on Shuowen. OT1968:624;
TA1965:569-72; DJ2009:v3:809; GY2008:1647.
Mnemonic: YOU CAN’T BOIL OR ROAST
BEFORE LIGHTING A FIRE
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