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1709
抽
CHŪ
pull, draw out
L1
8 strokes
CHŪSHŌabstraction
CHŪSHUTSUextraction
CHŪSENlottery
1710
衷
CHŪ
inner feelings
L1
9 strokes
SETCHŪcompromise
CHŪSHINtrue feelings
KUCHŪanguish
Seal form A ( 㨨 ) ; seal form B ( ) ;
a late graph (Shuowen). The Shuowen entry
heading has 㨨 , and notes as an alternative
writing. Has 34 ‘hand’, and 824
(‘stop; fasten’; later replaced by 421 [‘reason,
means’]) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘pick/pull out’, giving ‘pull out (with
hand)’. DJ2009:v3:993; OT1968:408;
KJ1970:699.
Mnemonic: THERE’S A REASON FOR PULLING
YOUR HAND OUT
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has
444 ‘garment’, and 59 ‘middle, inside’
as semantic and phonetic, giving ‘inside
garment’, i.e. ‘underwear’. Senses such as
‘sincere’ and ‘inner feelings’ are best taken
as loan usages (Qiu, Ogawa), though Shirakawa
and Gu take as extended senses.
OT1968:902; QX2000:273-4; GY2008:1104-5;
SS1984:595.
Mnemonic: ONE’S INNER FEELINGS ARE
INSIDE ONE’S CLOTHES
1711
酎
CHŪ, sake
sake, wine
L1
10 strokes
SHŌCHŪlow-grade sake
(no other compounds)
Seal . Has 318 ‘wine’ (originally, pictograph
of wine jar), and 920 (‘hand’) as
phonetic. The latter element is considered
to be an abbreviation here; views differ as to
what it is an abbreviation for. In one treatment,
it is taken as abbreviation for (NJK,
‘elbow’) with associated sense ‘brew well’
(Mizukami, Ogawa). Other proposals for the
unabbreviated phonetic are 151 (‘time’,
Gu) and 1454 (‘ox’, Shirakawa; see Note
below). Despite some variation regarding
the phonetic, commentators agree on the
overall meaning ‘strong alcohol’; Schuessler
says ‘spirits with sediment’. In Japan, it
refers to lower-grade distilled alcohol with
high alcohol content, made from sweet
potato or rice wine lees. Mizukami lists a
proposed bronze equivalent. Note: was
originally (OBI) a pictograph of a hand with
fingers bent, about to grab hold of something,
hence ‘grab with the hand’. It was
subsequently borrowed to signify ‘Ox’ as
the second of the Twelve Branches, used in
traditional Chinese culture for such things
as marking year dates on a recurrent cycle
of sixty years. Shirakawa’s proposal is based
on similarity in shape at the seal stage between
and . MS1995:v2:1346-7,v1:6-7;
OT1968:1026; GY2008:1014-15; AS2007:345.
Mnemonic: HAND ON THE WINE
BOTTLE – IT’S PROBABLY LOW-GRADE SAKE
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