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Free Online Kanji Etymology Dictionary
(A comprehensive Free Online Kanji Etymology Dictionary for the Web)
An Etymological Dictionary of Chinese Character Interpretations
By Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto
– Covering more than 6,500 Chinese characters as used in Japan –
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Kanji Search Results
当 (6)
トウ
あ（たり・たる・て・てる）
Formerly 當
As per 尚 (Type 1 Phonetic) (rise → raise) + 田 field → raise an amount of money matching the purchase price of a field → be on the mark. The ideas "match" and "be on the mark" have produced a slew of extended meanings, including fit, face, hit, aim, purpose, expectation, guess, object, put/place against, pawn and deserve.
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