From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.nihongo
Subject: kanji of the day ?51
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:03:57 GMT
Distribution: fj

KANJI OF THE DAY # 51

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(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 1995 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 8BB3 (hexcode)
NELSON   = 2052
MIYAMOTO = 11-172
KUNZE    = 89-13

   OnYomi: KYOU
  Kunyomi: oshi(eru)   -  to teach

Mnemonics:  "Parents teach child"

Derivation:

    Fragment of "old man" --> signifies parent
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        child
                                                             x
Remark: The left top part originaly were two crossed lines:  x
        to represent the idea of crossing or acting in turn.
        The signs stands then originaly for "making a child imitate".

        The complete left part is a kanji of its own and stands
        for "filial piety".

        So there are several conflicting derivations: old man + child,
        imitate + child, filial piety. The right part seems to be
        a hand with a  stick, the usual way to reinforce mnemonics.

Compounds:

KYOUshitsu   -  classroom
KYOUiku      -  education
KYOUkai      -  church
KYOUou, KYOUkou -  pope
KYOUin       -  teacher; faculty

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I got the following request (translated from German):

> Yesterday peeking through an old issue of Asahi Shimbun I found
> in the section "letters to the editor" a kanji I can't find, which
> might signify the profession of the writers:

> Left, upper quadrant: A form similar to radical 125, only the cross
> the understroke and the oblique downstroke (like in the kanji for
> miyako (capital city). Left, lower quadrant: radical 39,
> rigth half: radical 34.

Well, I asked the writer for an ascii graphics which then allowed me to
identify the sign :-)

Greetings to Harald

P.S: Depending whether the above mentioned writers were KYOUin or KYOUou
     they were either teachers or popes...

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Kurt Stueber
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