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2118<br />

錬<br />

REN, neru<br />

refine, train, drill<br />

L1<br />

16 strokes<br />

RENKINJUTSUalchemy<br />

RENSEItraining<br />

neriganetempered steel<br />

Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional<br />

. Consists of 16 ‘metal’ (Katō takes as<br />

‘ore’), combined with 438 (CO, ‘select’;<br />

q.v.) as phonetic with associated sense<br />

taken either as i] ‘soften’, giving ‘soften and<br />

forge metal’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘liquify’, giving<br />

‘ore liquifies’ (Katō)’ or iii] ‘process, treat’,<br />

giving ‘treat metal (by heating)’ (Shirakawa).<br />

OT1968:1046; KJ1970:926-7; SS1984:908.<br />

Take right side as ‘east’ 201.<br />

Mnemonic: GO EAST FOR TRAINING IN<br />

METAL REFINING<br />

2119<br />

呂<br />

RO, RYO<br />

backbone, tone<br />

L2<br />

7 strokes<br />

FUROfuro bath<br />

RORETSU*articulation<br />

I-RO-HAJapanese ‘ABC’<br />

OBI ; seal . Etymology disputed, all<br />

depending on how the shape of this graph<br />

is interpreted. is explained in Shuowen as<br />

‘spine, vertebrae’, and Mizukami and Ogawa<br />

follow this. Shirakawa, though, considers<br />

‘ingots’ to be the correct original meaning.<br />

Gu takes it to be ‘(palace) rooms’, with<br />

‘backbone’ as a meaning which evolved<br />

on the basis of the definition in Shuowen.<br />

MS1995:v1:222-3; OT1968:174; SS1984:880;<br />

GY2008:260-61.<br />

Mnemonic: BACKBONE HAS CONNECTED<br />

SQUARE BONES<br />

2120<br />

L1<br />

炉<br />

RO<br />

furnace, hearth<br />

8 strokes<br />

IRORIfireside, hearth<br />

DANROhearth, stove<br />

GENSHIROnuclear reactor<br />

Seal () ; traditional . According to<br />

Katō, one of the manuscripts of Shuowen<br />

notes as popular equivalent of . <br />

has 16 ‘metal’, with 盧 (NJK, ‘container’;<br />

see Note below) taken either as semantic<br />

and phonetic meaning ‘box’, giving ‘hearth;<br />

brazier’ (Ogawa), or as phonetic with associated<br />

sense ‘be/put in’, giving ‘brazier’ (Katō).<br />

By extension, ‘furnace’. Note: 盧 is treated by<br />

Mizukami and Katō as identical to

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