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1705
L1
秩
CHITSU
order
10 strokes
CHITSUJOorder
MUCHITSUJOdisorder
SHINCHITSUJOnew order
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 87 ‘grain
plant’, and 529 (‘lose’) as phonetic with
associated sense i] ‘fill up, accumulate’, giving
‘accumulate grain plants and make complete/
replenish’ (Tōdō; see Note below), or ii] ‘join
up in order’, giving ‘put grain plants in rows’,
and by extension ‘accumulate’ (Ogawa; see
Note following). Note: both Tōdō and Ogawa
say ‘rice plant’ (ine), but is generally interpreted
as ‘grain plant’, though Qiu prefers to
take more specifically as ‘foxtail millet’, a grain
plant grown at an early period in ancient
China. TA1965:748; OT1968:748; QX2000:176.
Mnemonic: LOSING GRAIN PLANTS IS OUT
OF ORDER
1706
窒
CHITSU
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 860
block up, plug
‘hole, cave’, and 886 ‘reach’. Usually taken
L1
11 strokes
with as phonetic with associated sense ‘become
full’, thus ‘hole becomes blocked’, then
CHISSOnitrogen
generalized to ‘block, cover, close off’ (Ogawa).
CHISSHIasphyxia
OT1968:742; AS2007:617; GY2008:1333.
CHISSOKUsuffocation
Mnemonic: REACH INTO HOLE TO PLUG IT
1707
嫡
CHAKU
legitimate (child)
L1
14 strokes
CHAKUSHIlegitimate heir
HAICHAKUdisinherit
CHAKUSHIlegitimate child
Seal ; late, post-Shuowen form. Has 37
‘woman, female’, and (NJK ‘say just one
thing, only’; later replaced by CO 啇 ‘origin’ [see
778, 779]) as phonetic with associated sense
taken as i] ‘straight, direct’ (Tōdō), or ii] ‘stand
facing’ (Ogawa), either way giving ‘original wife’,
and by extension ‘direct lineage’. Gu also takes
‘original legal wife’ as original meaning. Alternatively,
the associated sense is taken as ‘stay
in one place’, and seen to give original meaning
as ‘woman’s respectful and compliant attitude’
(Katō); in this treatment, Katō regards senses
such as ‘direct lineage’ as loan usages. The time
when 啇 replaced in this graph is hard to establish.
TA1965:462-3; OT1968:262; KJ1970:721;
GY2008:769; MS1995:v1:238-9; ZY2009:v1:130.
As 778 / 779, take 啇 as ‘funny tower’.
Mnemonic: WOMAN BESIDE FUNNY TOWER
IS LEGITIMATE
1708
沖
CHŪ, oki
OBI ; seal . Has 42 ‘water’, and 59
open sea, soar
L1
‘middle’ as phonetic with associated sense
7 strokes
taken as i] ‘shake, wobble’ (Katō), or ii] ‘gush/
flow out’, giving ‘water gushes out’ (Ogawa).
CHŪTENascendancy
The meaning ‘offshore expanse of sea’ is found
okiaioffshore
in Japanese only. ‘Soar up’ is a very minor
okizurioffshore fishing
meaning. MS1995:v2:736-8; KJ1970:700-01;
OT1968:561; GY2008:316-7.
Mnemonic: WATER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
SEA MEANS OPEN SEA
The Remaining 1130 Characters 507