From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Subject: kanji of the day ?36
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:24:29 GMT

KANJI OF THE DAY # 36

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      ****    ****          ******    13
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  **6*****************    ****16**************
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  7*******************    ****      **
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          ****            ****17**************
8***********************  ****      **
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        ****  10          ****      **
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****                      ****

(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 3559 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 93EF (hexcode)
NELSON   = 5038
MIYAMOTO = 18-132
KUNZE    = 201-28

   OnYomi: NAN
  Kunyomi: muzuka(shii)  -  hard, difficult, impossible

Mnemonics:  "Golden pheasant. Formerly a rare bird and DIFFICULT to find"

Derivation:

       "Yellow" = derived from the picture of a fire-arrow flung from a
       V          catapult.

        ******  ******        ** <--head
        ****    ****          ******    **
        ****    ****    **    ****      ******
  **************************  ****      ****
        ****    ****          **        **
        ****    ****          **      **    ****
                            ********************** <-- radical "old Bird"
    ********************    ****      **
    **      ****      **    ****      **
    **      ****      **  ******      **
    **      ****      ****  ****      **    **
    ********************    ******************** <-tail feathers
            ****            ****      **
            ****            ****      **
    ********************    ****      **
            ****            ****      **    **
            ****            ********************
  ************************  ****      **
  ^         ****            ****      **
catapult  ****  **          ****      **
          ****    ****      ****      **
        ****        ****    ****      **    ****
      ****     ^    ****    **********************
  ****         arrow        ****
          with burning head

Compounds:

NAMpa    -   wreckage (of ship)
NANmon   -   difficult question
ariGATA  -   Thank You (literally: impossible to exist)

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Isshoukemmei ni benkyou shinasai, sou sureba seikou shimasu.

Study hard and you will succeed.

Source: Vaccari "Brush up your Japanese" 1969

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Kurt Stueber
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