From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Subject: Kanji of the day ?61
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 12:19:57 GMT

KANJI OF THE DAY # 61

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(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 2344 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 8D98 (hexcode)
NELSON   =
MIYAMOTO = 13-280
KUNZE    =

   OnYomi: YOU
  Kunyomi: koshi  - waist, loins, hips, pelvic region

Mnemonics:  "Woman's womb"

Derivation:

    flesh,body parts
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Compounds:

YOUtsuu    -   pain in the hip
chuuGOSHI  -   half sitting posture
KOSHIyu    -   sitting bath
KOSHIore   -   bad poem, my humble poem (polite)
KOSHIobi   -   waist towel
KOSHInuke  -   coward
KOSHImoto  -   chamber maid, female servant
KOSHIkakeru -  to sit down
KOSHIkake  -   chair
KOSHIkake no  -  preliminary
KOSHIkake shigoto -  preliminary job

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about KOSHIore   -   bad poem, my humble poem (polite)
the following citation:

"Though presently I like English poems much better than Japanese.
Thats not so much the fault of the Japanese poets most surely of the
Japanese language. I can't but feel great sorrow for those who are
able to create poems in such a nonflexible language, so poor of metallic
sounds like Japanese. English instead is a beautiful language (though
French, Dutch or Spanish maybe are even more beautiful)."

Source: Tanizaki Jun'ichiroo "Bungei dokuhon" Kawade Tookyoo 1977
written originaly in 1922.
This was translated to German by Doris Spiegel and from German to
English by me.

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