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1942
癖
HEKI, kuse
habit, kink
L1
18 strokes
TŌHEKIkleptomania
SHŪHEKIhabit
kusege kinky/frizzy hair
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 404 ‘sickness,
sick bed’, with (‘punishment’: see 1887
Note) as phonetic with associated sense ‘build
up’ (Katō), giving ‘foods build up undigested’.
‘Lean too far and become unbalanced’ (later
); ‘fancifulness, eccentricity, habit’ are loan usages.
SS1984:767; KJ1970:843; OT1968:682.
Mnemonic: SOME KINKY HABITS ARE SICK
AND NEED PUNISHING
1943
L1
蔑
14
BETSU, sagesumu
scorn, despise,
contempt
strokes
KEIBETSUcontempt, scorn
BUBETSUcontempt, scorn
BESSHI look down on, scorn
OBI ; bronze ; seal ; traditional 蔑 . OBI
form has 苜 ‘eyebrows’, here meaning just
‘eyes’, with – in one analysis – 1857 (‘attack,
cut down’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘not have/exist’, giving ‘blind, cannot
see’ (Katō). In similar vein, the phonetic element
is taken as 476 (type of halberd,) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘little, cannot
see’, giving ‘cannot see well’ (Tōdō; see Note
below). By extension, ‘very little’, and by
further extension ‘hold in very low regard,
despise’. Note: the weapon element in OBI
and bronze is difficult to determine with
certainty, though it does look like either
or ‘halberd’ (there are a number of graphs
to which this interpretation is applicable).
At the seal stage, appears to have been
the one that was adopted as standard in this
graph, and it seems likely that Tōdō’s analysis
relates to the seal stage. MS1995:v1:530-
34,v2:1130-31; KJ1970:848; TA1965:667-70.
Take