From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: kanji of the day ?49
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:43:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: bloom-be.9210011248.AA16305
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

KANJI OF THE DAY # 49

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(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 2826 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 9045 (hexcode)
NELSON   = 3718
MIYAMOTO = 18-71
KUNZE    =

   OnYomi: SHOKU (employment, duties)
  Kunyomi:

Mnemonics:  "A weaver hears the sound of the loom while working"

Derivation:

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Compounds:

SHOKUnin    -  workman, mechanic, craftsman
SHOKUin     -  staff, personnal, employee
SHOKkou     -  factory worker
SHOKUgyou   -  occupation, business
naiSHOKU    -  side job
SHOKUba     -  place of work

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When I asked for books about the origins of kanji in the library of the
seminar for eastasian languages (Bonn, Germany) I was recommended the
following booklet:

"Kanji to sono bunkaken" from a certain Toudou ? ?
published in the year shouwa 46, price 800 Yen

which is for me at my stage of kanji knowledge rather illegible but may
prove valuable for readers at a more advanced stage. As far as I understand
the text it contains informations about the origins of kanji, their traveling
in China and through Korea to Japan. It is no dictionary or anything of this
kind but rather an essay. It has 153 pages.

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Kurt Stueber
e-mail: stueber@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de
Tel:  +49-221-5062537
Fax:  +49-221-5062513

This is Nr. 0049
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