From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.nihongo
Subject: kanji of the day ?54
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:16:13 GMT
Distribution: fj

KANJI OF THE DAY # 54

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      2*        ****                  ****
      ****3*********************************
      ****                            ****
      ****    4*      7*****  5*      ****
      ****      ****  ****    ******  ****
      ****      ****  ****    ****    ****
      ****            ****  **        ****
      ****  6***********************  ****
      ****          8*****            ****
      ****        ********9*          ****
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      ****      **    ****    ****    ****
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10**********************************************
                  ******  12
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(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 1596 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 899C (hexcode)
NELSON   = 240
MIYAMOTO = 12-9
KUNZE    =

   OnYomi: OU, OKU - (heart, interior)
  Kunyomi: oku(maru) - to lie deep in, to extend far back
           oku(matte) - secluded, innermost

Mnemonics:  "Storing rice in the interior of the house"

Derivation:

                ** <-- to put in
                ******
      **        ****                  ****
      ************************************** <-- house
      ****                            ****
      ****    **      ******  **      ****
      ****      ****  ****    ******  ****
      ****      ****  ****    ****    ****
      ****            ****  **        ****
      ****  ************************  ****
      ****          ******          <---------- bundle of rice
      ****        **********          ****
      ****        **  ****  ****      ****
      ****      **    ****    ****    ****
      ****  ****      ****    ****    ****
      ****          ****              ****
      ****          ****              ****  **
************************************************  <-- person
                  ******  **
                ******      ****
              ******          ******
            ******              **************
        ******                      ********   <-- feet of person
  ******                                ****

REMARK:

a variant of this sign is found in MIYAMOTO 13-58

Compounds:

OKUyama    -  remote mountain, mountain recesses
OKUgaki    -  a postscript
OKUba      -  molars, back teeth
OKUsama, OKUsan -  your or his wife, married lady, madam
OKU no ma  -  inner room
shinOU na  -  abstruse, esoteric, mysterious

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About the distinction between okusan and okusama or even when to use
okuchan and okuchama refer to the following book:

P.G. O'Neill "A programmed course on respect language in modern Japanese"
Charles E. Tuttle Company, ISBN 4-8053-0487-1
First edition 1966, Tuttle edition 1983.

I bought this book several years ago in the Kinokuniya-bookshop (beside
the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan for 8.50 Dollar. The price may have
changed now.

I then wrote a little program to incorporate the "programmed" course into
a little real program (a kind of Question and Answer play) but then
became to shy (or to lazy) to ask the Charles E. Tuttle Company for
the copyright... The program is written in PASCAL for the VAX.

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