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2114
L1
烈
RETSU
fierce, intense
10 strokes
REKKAragingfire
RETSUJOheroine
REPPŪgale
2115
裂
RETSU, saku/keru
split, rip, rend
L1
12 strokes
HARETSUbursting
BUNRETSUsplitting
sakemerip, tear, crack
2116
恋
REN, koi(shii)
love, beloved
L2
10 strokes
REN’AIlove
SHITSURENlost love
koibitolover
Seal ( 孌 ) ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Shuowen has only 孌 ; is later variant.
孌 has 37 ‘woman’, with 䜌 (‘unravel
tangled thread’; see Note 1) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as i] ‘connected’ >
‘connected to woman’ (Katō), or ii] ‘entangled’
> ‘entangled with woman’ (Tōdō), or
iii] ‘draw’ > ‘drawn towards woman’ (Ogawa)
(see Note 2). For , meanings are adjusted
to i] ‘heart connected’, or ii] ‘heart entangled’,
or iii] ‘heart drawn to’. Clerical script
2117
廉
REN
honest, cheap, corner
L1
13 strokes
RENCHOKUintegrity
RENKAcheap price
HARENCHIimpudence
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 8
‘fire’, with 437 (‘row’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as i] ‘severe, violent’,
> ‘burn violently’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘erupt, burst
out’ > ‘fire burns vigorously and explodes’
(Katō), or iii] ‘divide up’ > ‘flames divide
and shoot up’ (Mizukami). ‘Severe/intense’
are extensions. OT1968:619; KJ1970:922;
MS1995:v2:800-01.
Mnemonic: ROW OF FIERCE FIRES
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 444
‘garment’, with 437 (‘row’; orig ‘cut up’) as
phonetic with associated sense taken as i]
‘rip, cut’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘take apart, separate’
(Katō) > ‘cut up (when making garment)’.
Now used for accidental rip. OT1968:905;
KJ1970:922.
Mnemonic: ROW OF RIPPED CLOTHES!
already has ; is based on cursive forms
of . Note 1: one bronze form of 䜌 shows
hand over three skeins of silk thread, seen as
‘untangle thread’; some bronze/seal forms
have ‘silk’ (two skeins of silk thread), with
(‘words’ 118) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘tangled’ > ‘(silk) thread gets tangled’,
or ‘unravel tangled thread’ (given in Mizukami).
Note 2: the associated senses given
by Ogawa and Tōdō relate to the form of
this graph with heart 164, but have been
applied here also to earlier equivalent with
. DJ2009:v3:1021; MS1995:v2:1212-13;
FC1974:v1:891; KJ1970:897; TA1965:555-
7; OT1968:371; SK1984:318; AS2007:478.
QX2000:179. Use (NJK ‘again’, 1876).
Mnemonic: MY HEART IS IN LOVE AGAIN
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists of
127 ‘roof, building’, with 1281 (‘combine’)
as phonetic with associated sense taken as i]
‘angular’ (Ogawa), giving ‘corner’, or ii] ‘lean,
incline’, also giving ‘corner’ (Shirakawa), or – in
similar vein – iii] ‘steep’, giving ‘steep (side)’
(Katō). ‘Honest’ and ‘cheap’ are loan uses of .
OT1968:331; SS1984:906; KJ1970:926
Mnemonic: NOT MANY CORNERS IN CHEAP
BUILDING
The Remaining 1130 Characters 637