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旁つくり (tsukuri)

right-hand part of a kanji, phonetic component

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旁 (つくり, tsukuri) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “right-hand part of a kanji, phonetic component”.

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今日きょうは漢字かんじのつくりについて習ならった

We learnt about how the Chinese characters were formed today.

猿楽は本来神楽だから、神の字の旁を用いて申楽と書くのが正しいと解説している。

He explains that since sarugaku was originally kagura, it is correct to write it as 申楽, using the right-side component of the character 神.

三世紀の音符は【旁】にあり【壹】の旁は【豆】となっている事から、登あるいは澄と同様に「と」と発音されていたものと思われる。

Since the phonetic component in third-century phonology is in [旁] and the phonetic component of [壹] is [豆], it is thought to have been pronounced "to" like 登 or 澄.

東寺の夜叉:東寺にあった金剛夜叉明王、聖天・だ吉尼天(「だ」は咤の旁から宀を除いた字、荼枳尼天と同じ、だきにてん)・弁才天の三面六臂像。

The To-ji Temple's Yasha (a demon): Kongo yasha myoo was owned by the To-ji Temple, and it was a statue of Sanmen roppi (three faces and six arms and standing on a lotus with one leg raised) whose three faces are Seiten, Dakichiten, Benzaiten (a Buddhist goddess of music, learning, eloquence, wealth, longevity, and protection from natural disasters).

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