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1748<br />

訂<br />

TEI<br />

correct, revise<br />

L1<br />

9 strokes<br />

TEISEIcorrection<br />

KAITEIrevision<br />

KAITEIBANrevised edition<br />

Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 118<br />

‘words; speak’, and 367 (‘block; exact’) as<br />

phonetic with associated sense taken as i] ‘level,<br />

just’, giving ‘fair words’ (Katō), or ii] ‘bring<br />

together as one, consolidate’, giving ‘consolidate<br />

words’ (Tōdō), or iii] ‘inquire’, giving<br />

‘plan fairly’ and by extension ‘correct’ (Ogawa).<br />

KJ1970:715; TA1965:470-74; OT1968:920.<br />

Mnemonic: USE EXACT WORDS WHEN<br />

REVISING AND CORRECTING<br />

1749<br />

逓<br />

TEI<br />

relay, in sequence<br />

L1<br />

10 strokes<br />

TEISŌforwarding<br />

TEISHINcommunications<br />

TEIJIin sequence<br />

Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .<br />

Has 85 ’go, walk’, and (‘[mythical] tigerlike<br />

beast with horn’ [Shuowen]; Shirakawa,<br />

though, says ‘skin a tiger’) as phonetic with as-<br />

sociated sense ‘take the place of’, giving ‘go in<br />

turns’. By extension, ‘send in turns, walk/send<br />

and change at post station’; sense then generalized<br />

to ‘relay, in sequence’. OT1968:1001;<br />

KJ1970:712; ZY2009:v3:1130; SS1984:617.<br />

Difficult mnemonically, but we suggest taking<br />

right side as ‘cliff’, as ‘ten’ 35, and ‘city’<br />

144.<br />

Mnemonic: CLIFF MOVES! NEED TO RELAY<br />

NEWS TO TEN CITIES (IN SEQUENCE)<br />

1750<br />

偵<br />

TEI<br />

Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 41<br />

spy, inquire,<br />

‘person’, and 1746 (original meaning<br />

L1<br />

investigate<br />

‘inquire’, as here, though modern meaning<br />

11 strokes<br />

is ‘chaste, virtue’) as semantic and phonetic,<br />

giving ‘person who inquires/looks into something’,<br />

and hence ‘investigate’. OT1968:75;<br />

SS1984:617.<br />

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TANTEIdetective, detection<br />

NAITEIsecret inquiry<br />

TEISATSUreconnaisance<br />

Mnemonic: SPY ON PERSON’S CHASTITY AS<br />

PART OF INVESTIGATION<br />

1751<br />

堤<br />

TEI, tsutsumi<br />

embankment<br />

L1<br />

12 strokes<br />

BŌHATEIbreakwater<br />

TEIBŌlevee, dike<br />

TOTTEIpier, jetty<br />

Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 64<br />

‘earth, ground’, and 1574 (‘proper; this’)<br />

as phonetic with associated sense taken<br />

as i] ‘stop’, giving ‘piled-up earth to stop<br />

(water)’, (Ogawa, Shirakawa), or ii] ‘extend<br />

thinly in even manner’, giving ‘earth which<br />

extends thinly in even manner’ (Tōdō), either<br />

way giving ‘embankment’. DJ2009:v3:1117;<br />

OT1968:220; SS1984:618; TA1965:455-60.<br />

Mnemonic: USE EARTH PROPERLY TO BUILD<br />

EMBANKMENT<br />

The Remaining 1130 Characters 521

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