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TSUMUGU · A2 (est.) · 字
野 character · A2 (est.)
野 ＝ 里 ＋ 予
ㄧㄝˇ · yě
noun/adj — open country, the wilds; wild, untamed

字源 FORM — what the parts do

里義the land — 田 over 土, fields and soil
予聲yǔ — gives the sounda shuttle passing thread, hand to hand
IFyǔ → yě — the reading shifts off the donor
The land (里), fields and soil, out past the settled edge — open country, the wilds. 予 yǔ carries the sound, shifted to yě. From the country beyond town: 野外、田野, and the untamed: 野生、野心.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

田土（里）一路鋪到村外，沒人圈管——野。
The fields (里) running out past the last house, fenced by no one — open wild country.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)郊野、野外— open country, the wilds常用
→田野、原野— fields; open plain
→野生、野心— wild, untamed; (of the heart) ambition常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
里lǐthe land alone — 野 adds 予 for the country out past the settled 里予yǔthe phonetic alone — a shuttle; also seeds 序、舒、預, here drifted to yě