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1861
L1
氾
5
HAN
flood, deluge,
overflow
strokes
HANRANflood
HANRANGENflood plain
(no further compounds)
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42 ‘water’,
and , the latter in one view (Ogawa) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘cover, spread’,
or as semantic and phonetic meaning ‘cover’
(Tōdō); either way, gives ‘spread, overflow’.
OT1968:557; TA1965:868-71. We suggest taking
as slumped person.
Mnemonic: SLUMPED FIGURE IN THE WATER
AFTER DELUGE AND OVERFLOW
1862
帆
HAN, ho
sail
L1
6 strokes
HANSENsailboat
hobashiramast
hokakeruset sail
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 1232
‘cloth’, with 1993 (‘mediocre’, ‘ordinary’), as
phonetic with associated sense ‘wind’, giving
‘cloth to catch wind’ (Shirakawa). In Tōdō’s
word family meaning ‘cover (with connotation
“flat”)’, giving ‘cloth (on boat) which covers/
spreads in flat manner’, hence ‘sail on boat
spread out flat, sail’. SS1984:699; OT1968:314;
KJ1970:783; TA1965:868-71.
Mnemonic: MEDIOCRE CLOTH USED FOR
SAIL
1863
汎
HAN
extensive, pan-
L1
6 strokes
HAN’AIphilanthropy
HANSHINRONpantheism
HANTAIHEIYŌPan-Pacific
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42
‘water’, with 1993 (‘mediocre, ordinary’) as
phonetic with associated sense taken either
as i] ‘shake, sway, heave’, giving ‘drift tossed
about by wind and waves’ (Ogawa), or ii]
‘cover (with connotation ”flat”)’, giving ‘expanse
of water’, and also ‘float on expanse of
water’ (Tōdō). Meanings such as ‘everywhere,
pan-’ represent extended senses. OT1968:559;
TA1965:868-71.
Mnemonic: ORDINARY WATER IS EXTENSIVE
1864
伴
HAN, BAN, tomonau
accompany
L1
7 strokes
DŌHANSHAcompanion
BANSŌSHAaccompanist
aitomonauaccompany
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has41 ‘person’, with /214 (‘half’)
serving as phonetic with associated sense
taken as i] ‘corpulent’, giving ‘corpulent/
obese person’ (Katō), or – in similar vein – ii]
‘spread out’, giving ‘large person’ (Tōdō), or
iii] ‘divide in two’, giving ‘one (person) who is
half of a pair’ (Tōdō’s alternative interpreta-
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