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(both interpretations are listed in Mizukami).
In another analysis, is treated as phonetic
with associated sense ‘vilify, calumnify’,
giving ‘woman who vilifies others’ (Katō).
In either case, sense became generalized
and not gender-specific, and with ‘obstruct’
as the principal meaning. Mizukami lists
a proposed OBI equivalent. OT1968:253;
TA1965:443; MS1995:v1:318-9; KJ1970:763.
Mnemonic: WOMAN AT SIDE CAUSES OB-
STRUCTION
1971
L1
房
BŌ, fusa
wife, room, tuft
8 strokes
NYŌBŌwife
fusafusafleecy
BŌSHITSUchamber
1972
肪
BŌ
fat
L1
8 strokes
SHIBŌfat
SHIBŌKATAobesity
SHIBŌYUfatty oil
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 120
‘door’, here in the sense ‘building’, combined
with 223 (‘side’) as semantic and phonetic
meaning ‘side’, giving ‘(small) side rooms in a
building’ (of a communal nature). Extended
senses include ‘building, house’, and people
who live there – specifically, family members,
particularly ‘wife’ (Gu). Minor sense ‘tuft, fleece’
may be loan usage. OT1968:398; TA1965:442;
SS1984:796; GY2008:732-3.
Mnemonic: DOOR TO ONE SIDE LEADS TO
WIFE’S ROOM
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 209
‘meat, body’, with 223 (‘side, direction’) as
phonetic with associated sense taken as i]
‘swell up’ (Ogawa), ‘taut and bloated’ (Tōdō),
giving ‘grow fat/corpulent’, or ii] ‘white’, giving
‘white flesh’, i.e. ‘fatty tissue’ (second associated
sense given by Tōdō). OT1968:817;
TA1965:430-32,439-44.
Mnemonic: FAT IS FOUND AT SIDE OF MEAT
1973
某
BŌ, BAI, nanigashi
a certain-, some-
L1
9 strokes
BŌSHIa certain man
BŌSHOa certain place
Ōta-nanigashia certain Mr Ōta
Bronze ; seal . Usually taken as
73 ‘tree, wood’, with 1139 ‘sweet’ in its
original meaning ‘put in the mouth’, giving
‘tree fruit which pregnant women like to
eat’ on account of its acidity. Ogawa and Gu
take this as ‘plum’, while Katō sees it in more
general terms as ‘acidic fruit’. Shirakawa,
though, treats differently, claiming that
upper element is not but 1048 ‘speak’,
giving a proposed overall meaning relating
to placing prayer texts to the deities in a
container on a tree. This view is unconvincing,
as the upper element in bronze and seal
equivalents of clearly corresponds to ,
not . The consensus view is the one to follow
here. The sense ‘a certain …’ is a loan usage.
OT1968:214; GY2008:783; KJ1970:756-7;
SS1984:797.
Mnemonic: A CERTAIN SOMEONE IS SWEET
ON FRUIT FROM TREE
The Remaining 1130 Characters 589