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giving ‘smooth precious stone’. Used in
combination with 2077, another graph of
the same or very close meaning, to write
‘lapis lazuli’. DJ2009:v1:30; TA1965:204;
SS1984:893.
Mnemonic: STOP AND FASTEN PRECIOUS
LAPIS LAZULI DECORATION
2101
涙
RUI, namida
survives (Katō). Traditional form: . Consists
tear(s)
of 42 ‘water, liquid’, combined with /
L2
10 strokes
2105 (‘return’) as phonetic with associated
sense taken either as i] ‘accumulate continually’
RUIKANtear duct
(Ogawa), or ii] ‘drip down’, either way
namidaame light rain
taken to mean ‘tears’. An interesting variant
soranamida crocodile tears
is the semantically more transparent form
(NJK; 42 ‘water and 76 ‘eye’), but is
A late graph, not included in extant versions
rarely used. OT1968:583; KJ1970:917.
of Shuowen, though it appears to have been
included in an early version which no longer Mnemonic: WATER RETURNS AS TEARS
2102
累
RUI
Seal () ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has 29 ‘thread’, with 畾 (CO;
accumulate, involve
L1
11 strokes
orig. form of 靁 ‘thunder’ [ 2066]) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘accumulate, follow
RUIKEIsum total
one after another’, giving ‘join together’.
RUISEKI accumulation
‘Involved’ is extended sense. TA1965:688;
KEIRUI dependents
DJ2009:v3:1070; GY2008:1814; OT1968:776.
Take as ‘field’ 63 and ‘thread’ 29.
Mnemonic: THREADS ACCUMULATE IN FIELD
– NEED TO GET INVOLVED
2103
塁
RUI
Bronze () ; seal () ; traditional .
fort, base, baseball Has 64 ‘earth, ground’, with 畾 (originally
L1
base
form of 靁 ‘thunder’ [2066]) as phonetic
12 strokes
with associated sense ‘pile up, accumulate’
(Mizukami adds ‘in orderly manner’). Overall
DORUIearthwork
meaning is ‘structure made of earth, stones,
TEKIRUI enemy fort
etc. piled up (arranged in orderly way)’, i.e.
RUISHIN base umpire
‘fortifications, fortress, base’. OT1968:221;
KJ1970:914; MS1995:v1:280-81. Take as 63
field, as four pointers.
Mnemonic: FOUR POINTERS TO EARTHEN
BASES IN FIELD
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