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2025
L1
網
MŌ, ami
net, network
14 strokes
GYOMŌfishing net
amidoscreen door
TSŪSHINMŌnews network
OBI () ; seal form A () ; seal form B
. OBI form (bronze also) is a pictograph of
a net, probably for catching wild animals or
fish. Main entry for the graph in Shuowen has
(see 570), but goes on to give and as
alternative forms. comprises (variant of
) with 985 (‘lose, disappear, die’) added
as phonetic with associated sense ‘mix,
intertwine’, giving ‘net made of intertwined/
interwoven material’. Later was borrowed
for its sound value as a convenient means of
representing several grammatical function
words of negative meaning, so to clarify the
word for ‘net’ in writing 29 ‘thread’ was
added, resulting in . QX2000:181,223,227-
8; KJ1970:782; MS1995:v2:1030-31;
DJ2009:v2:617; SS1984:822-3; WD1974:759-
61. Suggest taking as cover, horns ,
and ‘dead’ 985.
Mnemonic: DEAD HORNED CREATURE
COVERED BY THREADED NET
2026
黙
MOKU, damaru
be silent
L1
15 strokes
MOKUSATSUgive no reply
CHINMOKUsilence
damarikomu fallsilent
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
form: . Has 19 ‘dog’, with (traditional
form of 137 ‘black’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘nothing, silent’, thus ‘dog which
is quiet’; by extension, ‘silent’. KJ1970:864-5;
OT1968:647; TA1965:165; GY2008:1885-6.
Mnemonic: BLACK DOG IS SILENT
2027
紋
MON
crest, pattern
L1
10 strokes
MONSHŌheraldic crest
SHIMONfingerprint
HAMONripple
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Originally written
just as 72 (original meaning ‘pattern’;
now ‘writing, text’). was used increasingly
to mean ‘writing’, and when the meaning
‘pattern’ was intended this was indicated by
adding 29 ‘thread’ as determinative to
give . In Japanese, is now typically ‘crest’.
OT1968:771; SS1984:825; KJ1970:220.
Mnemonic: THREADS IN CREST FORM
PATTERN LIKE WRITING
2028
L1
冶
YA
smelt, melt
7 strokes
YAKINmetallurgy
TŌYAtraining
kajiya*blacksmith
Bronze ; seal . Seal form consists of
401 ‘ice’, with (‘I, me’; see Note below) as
phonetic with associated sense taken in one
approach either as i] ‘grow slack, relax’, or ii]
‘modify’. Either way, the resultant meaning is
‘smelt metal’ (in the case of i], by extension,
and in ii] by indirect extension on the basis
‘modify metal in the same way as melting
ice’). Another interpretation, though, takes
the right-hand element in one of the bronze
occurrences as a shape representing not ‘ice’
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