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1789
筒
TŌ, tsutsu
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists of
tube, cylinder
58 ‘bamboo’, combined with 204 (‘same’)
L2
12 strokes
as phonetic with associated sense ‘penetrate,
pierce; hollow’, giving ‘bamboo tube (with
ENTŌcylinder
joint obstructions removed)’. Katō prefers
tsutsunukedirectly
to take it as ‘flute’, though this is probably a
tsutsugata cylindrical
specialized sense. OT1968:751; TA1965:286-9;
AS2007:499-500; KJ1970:73.
Mnemonic: BAMBOO IS ALL THE
SAME – CYLINDRICAL
1790
稲
TŌ, ine, inarice
(plant)
L1
14 strokes
SUITŌpaddy rice
inaSAKU rice crop
Waseda* place-name
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Consists
of 87 ‘grain plant, grain’, combined
with CO 舀 (‘ladle out, remove’; see Note
below) as phonetic with associated sense
taken either as i] ‘soft, pliant’, giving ‘grain
softer than millet for pounding’, i.e. ‘rice’
(Katō), or ii] ‘knead, work’, giving ‘make
sticky by working/kneading in a mortar’,
also considered to mean ‘rice’ (this view
noted in Mizukami, who also lists proposed
OBI equivalents). Note: 舀 is interpreted as
originally depicting 319 ‘hand’ taking
something small (such as grains, represented
by dot-like shapes) out of 677 ‘mortar’
(Qiu). KJ1970:762-3; MS1995:v2:969-70;
QX2000:189. We suggest taking the lower
right element as ‘old’ 677, or as ‘one’
‘day’ 66.
Mnemonic: HAND PICKS OLD RICE PLANTS
Or: HAND WILL PICK RICE PLANTS ONE DAY
1791
踏
TŌ, fumu/maeru
tread, step on
L1
15 strokes
TŌHAtramp, travel on foot
ashibumistep, tread, stalemate
fumikomustep into
Seal () . The graph is a popular
equivalent of later origin which rose to
predominance. The seal form consists of
54 ‘foot, leg’, combined with