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out metal fitting’ (on a gate/door to facilitate
opening and closing). ‘Shop’ seems a later
meaning, possibly through metal door/gate
fittings indicating type of trade, then by
extension the premises. ‘Spread, set out’ is
seen in words such as HOSŌ ‘paving’.
is a later form replacing with /727
‘house, quarters’. MS1995:v2:1368-9,1096-7;
SS1984:779-80; AS2007:173; OT1968:196;
GY2008:1439. Take as ‘use’ 235, ‘ten’
35, plus ‘dot’.
Mnemonic: USE TEN DOTTED PAVERS TO
SPREAD OUT FOR SHOP QUARTERS
1949
L2
募
12
BOSHŪrecruitment
BOKINfund raising
ŌBO response to call
BO, tsunoru
gather, raise, enlist,
intense
strokes
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 78
‘strength, effort’, with (‘sunset’; see 809
and 982) as phonetic with associated sense
taken as i] ‘seek, look for’, giving ‘seek assiduously’
(Ogawa, Tōdō), or ii] ‘obtain’, giving
‘endeavor to obtain’ (Katō). Either way it
results in seeking to gather, giving a number
of extended senses. OT1968:129; TA1965:449-
53; KJ1970:775. Take as variant ‘big’ 56,
‘grass’ 53, and ‘sun’ 66.
Mnemonic: INTENSE BIG EFFORT TO RAISE
AND GATHER GRASS WHILE SUN SHINES
1950
L1
慕
BO, shitau/washii
yearn, adore, hold
dear
14 strokes
BOJŌ longing
KEIBOrespect, admiration
AIBO love, yearning
Bronze ; seal . Consists of 164 ‘heart,
mind’ in the abbreviated form , combined
with (‘sunset’; see 809 and 982) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘seek, look
for’, giving ‘long for, feel drawn towards’.
MS1995:v1:522-4; OT1968:384; KJ1970:774.
We suggest taking as variant ‘big’ 56,
‘grass’ 53, and ‘sun’ 66.
Mnemonic: BIG YEARNING IN HEART TO LIE
ON SUNNY GRASS
1951
簿
BO, HAKU
register, record
L1
19 strokes
BOKIbook-keeping
MEIBOregister (of names)
CHŌBO register, lease
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Consists of
58 ‘bamboo’, combined with 尃 (CO, ‘spread
out the fingers’; see 1915 Note) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘bind together’, giving
‘bamboo tablets bound together’ (Shirakawa
says ‘thin bamboo tablets bound together’).
Bamboo tablets were commonly used as a
writing material before the invention of paper
in China (true paper was invented there at the
beginning of the 2 nd century AD), and bound
together to form volumes. came to be used
in a semantically restricted range covering
bound volumes of a utilitarian nature such as
record books. OT1968:759; SS1984:782.
Mnemonic: RECORD WATER SPREADING
OVER BAMBOO REGISTER
The Remaining 1130 Characters 583