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phonetic with associated sense ‘shamaness,
consult with shamaness’ (apparently a
hunchback shamaness). Mizukami also notes
a different view of as meaning ‘capture
and link women together’. Schuessler gives
original sense of as ‘mound’, and also
notes possible link with ‘hunchbacked’.
OT1968:517; KJ1970:928-9; AS2007:364;
MS1995:v1:336-8. Take top right element in
modern form as rice 220.
Mnemonic: WOMAN PREPARES RICE IN
WOODEN TOWER
2128
漏
RŌ, moru/reru/rasu
leak
L1
14 strokes
RŌDENshort circuit
RŌSHUTSUleakage
amamorileak in roof
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Original
form was 屚 , with water 42 added later as
determinative. 屚 has 256 (often ‘corpse’),
but here meaning ‘roof’, with 3 ‘rain’,
thus ‘rain leaks through roof’, giving ‘leak’
generally. Shuowen defines as ‘clepsydra’
(water-clock), which is an extended sense
based on dripping of water being a simple
means of measuring time. GY2008:1759-60;
MS1995:v1:412-3; OT1968:606. Take as
‘corpse’.
Mnemonic: RAINWATER LEAKS ON CORPSE
2129
L1
籠
22
RŌ, kago, komoru
stay at home, basket,
cage
strokes
hikikomoristaying at home
torikagobird cage
RŌKYŪbasketball
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 58
‘bamboo’, with (traditional form of
2081 ‘dragon’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘cram/stuff in’, giving ‘bamboo basket
to cram things into’. ‘Staying at home’ is an
extended sense. OT1968:760; GY2008:266-7.
Mnemonic: TRADITIONAL DRAGON STAYS AT
HOME IN A BAMBOO CAGE
2130
L1
麓
ROKU, fumoto
foot of mountain
19 strokes
SANROKUfoot of mountain
(no further compounds)
OBI ; seal . Has 79 ‘forest’, with
2111 ‘deer’ as phonetic with associated
sense ‘continue a long way, continue’, giving
‘forest which stretches (right) down to base
of mountain’. Shuowen defines graph as ‘official
in charge of mountain and forest’, but
this is an extended sense. MS1995:v2:1506-7;
OT1968:529; GY2008:1985.
Mnemonic: THERE ARE DEER IN THE FOREST
AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN
The Remaining 1130 Characters 641