舊
부수: 臼
획수: 18획
舊 has the meanings ‘old’ and ‘ancient’.
舊 = 雈 + 臼
X = semantic + phonetic
• 雈 depicts either an owl or a hawk (see historical forms). The original meaning of 雈 was ‘type of bird’.
• 臼 depicts a mortar (cooking utensil), but is used for its sound.
Evolution:
舊 = ’type of bird’ ➔ borrowed use ➔ ’old’ ➔ ’worn out’
Mnemonic
Imagine an old owl 雈 dropping nuts into a mortar 臼 as it flies by. This is how he helps out his old 친舊s.
Vocab
| 親舊 | 친구 | friend, companion |
| 舊式 | 구식 | old style, old methods |
| 復舊 | 복구 | restore |
| 新舊 | 신구 | old and new |
| 舊世代 | 구세대 | old generation |
| 舊石器 | 구석기 | paleolith, stone relic |
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Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 1693]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 648]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 舊, 雈, 臼].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 677]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.