Mnemonic or Glyph Origin for 御

Question

I can't fiugure out suitable mnemonic for 御.

Does someone has a good idea?

Answer 1

「御」 originally meant to operate or manage/control, then extended to mean the adjective imperial.

The meaning to drive a carriage is specifically held by the character 「馭」; when 「御」 is used for this meaning, it is a rebus of 「馭」.

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「御」 (to operate/manage) originally depicted a kneeling person 「卩」 using (operating) a pestle 「午」.

Pestle is now written as the derivative character 「杵」.

Later on, two verb-like markers were added:

• 「彳」 (half of the character 「行」, picture of a road intersection > roads, travelling)

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• 「止」 (picture of a foot > walking). This leads on to the modern form 「御」.

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References:

• 季旭昇《說文新證》
• 小學堂
• 國學大師
  • 郭沫若《甲骨文合集》
  • 中國社會科學院考古研究所《殷周金文集成》

Answer 2

Stop driving carriage at noon.

I'm boring...

Hope you can figure it out....

Explanation really hurts,my English very bad,now I feel my brain'RAM overflowed.

御 originally means 'driving a carriage'. This carriage need two people to fire up just like the one in the picture .

It can be broken down into several parts：彳，卸。 If you think 卸 is still too complex,then break it down to 午，止，卩。

彳：There are a lot of character involve it,this component means 'two people' or '行'. 卩： imagine a nodding horse.

I can't continue to explain, I see that "blue screen". Sorry.