From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.nihongo
Subject: kanji of the day #24
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:31:19 GMT
Distribution: fj


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(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 2364 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 8DAC (hexcode)
NELSON   = 2604
MIYAMOTO = 11-242
KUNZE    =

 OnYomi: KON
Kunyomi: ma(zeru)   -  to mix
         ma(jiru)   -  beeing mixed

Mnemonics:  "Measure and mix"

Derivation:

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        **    **        **  ****   <- Two persons sitting side by side
      ****    ********  ******        indicating: to compare
      **      **        **            see also NELSON 2470 kura(beru)
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   fluid (three drops)

Compounds:


KONzuru   -  to mix
KONran    -  puzzlement
KONgou    -  mixture

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Lafcadio Hearn writes 1907 in his book "Kokoro" about Japan's
international trade relations:
"Really the dullest foreigner could not have believed that a people of
forty millions, uniting all their energies to achieve absolute national
independence, would remain content to leave the management of their
country's import and export trade to aliens..."

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Kurt Stueber, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Zuechtungsforschung
              Carl-von-Linne-Weg 10, D-5000 Koeln 30
e-mail: stueber@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de
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This is Nr. 0024
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