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533
L3
祝
SHUKU, SHŪ, iwau
celebrate
9 strokes
SHUKUGAcelebration
SHUKUJIcongratulations
iwaigotohappy event
OBI ; seal . Some OBI forms have /
723 ‘altar’ and what seems to be 114 ‘elder
brother’, but other OBI forms lack the element
and have a kneeling person with arms
reaching out towards the altar, making the
‘elder brother’ interpretation difficult. Rather,
is typically analyzed as ‘altar’, with taken
here as having two components: ‘person
variant’ (see 41) with 22 ‘speak’, to give
person speaking – in this context, a shaman (in
the OBI period either male or female, but later
female only) who invokes the gods. Further,
some commentators (Mizukami, Katō, Yamada)
take the shaman to be a hunchback, based
on the bent posture. Ogawa and Ma, though,
while taking it as a shaman, do not take as
a hunchback. In support of Ogawa and Ma,
some OBI occurrences show a person kneeling
upright with outstretched arms. Also some OBI
occurrences of ‘elder brother’ itself have the
same ‘person variant’ element in what could
be a hunchback shape, but no scholar has
suggested the sense ‘hunchback’ in this case. In
summary, interpretation as a shaman invoking
or seeking the blessing of the gods (Ma), seems
appropriate. ‘Bless’ and ‘celebrate’ may be seen
as extended senses. MS1995:v2:944-5,90-91;
KJ1970:571-3; YK1976:257-8; OT1968:719-20;
MR2007:215; AS2007:628. Here, we suggest taking
as ‘elder brother’.
Mnemonic: ELDER BROTHER CELEBRATES AT
ALTAR
534
順
JUN
sequence, compliance
L3
12 strokes
JUNJOsequence
JŪJUNcompliance
JUNCHŌ nifavourably
Bronze ; seal . Has 103 ‘head; bow down’,
and 50 (‘river’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘obey, follow’, to give ‘bow head
and obey’. Later generalized to ‘obey, follow’.
KJ1970:529-30; MS1995:v2:1442-3,1440-41;
YK1976:262-3; OT1968:1101.
Mnemonic: COMPLIANT HEADS BOW IN
SEQUENCE, LIKE FLOWING RIVER
535
初
SHO, hatsu-, hajime
beginning, first
L3
7 strokes
SAISHOfirst
hajimetefirst time
hatsukoifirst love
OBI ; seal . Has () 444 ‘garment;
cloth’, and 198 ‘knife’, giving ‘first cut of cloth
for a garment’. MS1995:v1:126-7; KJ1970:533;
YK1976:264; OT1968:113.
Mnemonic: CLOTHES MUST FIRST BE CUT
536
松
SHŌ, matsu
pine
L1
8 strokes
matsubapine needle
matsubarapine grove
SHŌKON’YUturpentine
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 73 ‘tree’,
and 126 (‘public; fair’) as phonetic with
associated sense regarding which interpretations
differ. Katō takes as ‘needle’, to give tree
with needle-shape leaves, while Ogawa takes
as ‘gather, come together’, to give tree with
leaves close together; both scholars come to
the same meaning, i.e. pine tree. KJ1970:541-2;
OT1968:493.
Mnemonic: PINE SHOULD BE A PUBLIC TREE
180 The 200 Fourth Grade Characters