From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.nihongo
Subject: kanji of the day #25
Date: 31 Jul 92 12:34:27 GMT
Distribution: fj

KANJI OF THE DAY # 25

                              7*****
    1*          ****          ****
    ****2*************        ****
    ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****        ****  6*************************
    ****3***********          ****        ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****4***********          ****        ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****        ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****      ****          ******
    ****        ********  ****          ****
    **************      ****            ****
5***********            **            ******
  ******              **              ****
  **                **          **********
                ****                ****


(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 2717 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 8F95 (hexcode)
NELSON   = 719
MIYAMOTO = 7-64
KUNZE    = 16-32

   OnYomi: JO
  Kunyomi: tasu(karu) - to be aided, to be rescued
           tasu(keru) - to aid, to rescue

Mnemonics:  "Assisting in loading and unloading"

Derivation:

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    **          ****          ****
    ******************        ****
    ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****        ****  **************************
    ****************          ****        ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****  <- strength, signifies "work"
    ****        ****          ****        ****     (man with sword?)
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****************          ****        ****
    ****        ****          ****        ****
    ****        ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****        ****          ****
    ****        ****      ****          ******
    ****        ********  ****          ****
    **************      ****            ****
************            **            ******
  ******              **              ****
  **                **          **********
                ****                ****
        ^
        things piled (heap), the lower SUPPORT the upper

Compounds:

-suke   -  suffix for masculine names
JOshu   -  assistant
hoJO    -  assistance
JOryoku -  help, aid


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Yes it IS possible to learn Japanese (even for a German):

In the year 1914 Japan and Germany had so far as I know their only
military encounter during the siege of Tsingtau.

During the night a German patrol approached the Japanese lines.
Captain Schaumburg ordered to one of his subordinates who spoke
Japanese: "Shout some abuse at them so that we finally get them
in front of our eyes.."
The man thundered out and got an immediate reply of cracking rifle
fire, chattering machine guns and bright sheets of flame from
impacting shells.

(Source: C.B. Burdick "The Japanese Siege of Tsingtau", 1976)

I am wondering WHAT he might have shouted to have such a success.

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