Saturday, January 6, 2018

豸: 奇妙な動物

is 表外漢字, meaning (per Kanji Study) snake, bug IIRC, and badger.  I'll go with badger as it looks sort of like 豕 but with extra stuff at the top.  Teeth?  That helps with...

, which is also 表外漢字, and seems to mean "gnaw."  Which is what a critter might do with things it stops to stare at 艮 because they look like good 良い food 食べ物.

So after all that:

, cultivate:  One way to get land 土 ready for planting is to get critters 豸 to
                        gnaw on it  貇.  (Farmers do this with pigs, but maybe badgers
                        will work in a pinch.)
, cordial:     The warm fuzzy feeling a critter gets when you give it
                           something to gnaw.

Kanji: 懇.

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