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558
L3
争
SŌ, arasou
conflict, vie
6 strokes
SENSŌwar
KYŌSŌSHAcompetitor
iiarasoiquarrel
OBI ; bronze ; seal ; traditional ; OBI
forms have what appears to be two opposing
hands and an object, while bronze forms differ
in having a hand restraining another person’s
arm with flexed muscles. The seal form again
has a hand, reaching for someone else’s hand
holding an object. Typically taken to originally
mean ‘restrain someone’, with ‘quarrel’ as an
extended sense, but could equally be taken
to mean ‘quarrel’ directly. MS1995:v2:818-9;
KJ1970:653; YK1976:324; QX2000:156. We suggest
taking the modern graph as a bent old
man 41 and as a hand holding a stick.
Mnemonic: VIE WITH BENT OLD MAN WITH
STICK IN HIS HAND
559
L1
倉
10
SŌ, kura
warehouse,
sudden
strokes
SENSŌship’s hold
SŌKŌin great haste
kuraniwarehouse goods
OBI ; bronze ; seal . Has (roof
cover), and / (OBI form shows meaning to
be ‘open a door with hand’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘fragrant grain’, giving overall
meaning ‘barn, warehouse’. KJ1970:347-8;
YK1976:327-8; MS1995:v1:74-5. Suggest taking
the modern graph as cover , 120 variant
‘door’, and 22 ‘entrance’.
Mnemonic: WAREHOUSE HAS COVER AND
ENTRANCE WITH DOOR
560
巣
SŌ, su
nest
L1
11 strokes
KISŌhoming
subakonesting box
sudatsuleave nest/home
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Etymology
disputed. One view takes as 73 ‘tree’, with
top element representing a bird’s nest (Ogawa,
Shirakawa). Seal form suggests this, but the
one bronze form scholars list has an ordered
appearance, suggesting an artificial object.
561
L3
束
7
SOKU, taba(neru),
tsuka(neru)
bundle, manage
strokes
KESSOKUbond, union
hanatababouquet
tsukanomabrief moment
OBI ; seal . Typically seen as bundle of wood
tied up, and by extension ‘tie up’. OBI form,
though, only shows one tree with rope round
Katō treats top element as pictograph of
container – in this case wine strainer or press –
but here acting as phonetic (corresponding to
later 甾 ) and having associated sense ‘gather,
collect’, to give ‘birds gather and settle on a
tree’. As things are collected in a container, the
top element may be taken as both semantic
and phonetic if Katō is followed. OT1968:508;
SS1984:542; KJ1970:432. Suggest take as 454
‘fruit tree’ with three sticks on top.
Mnemonic: THREE STICKS ATOP FRUIT TREE
FORM NEST
it (some bronze forms show several bound
lengths of wood), so probably this graph
represents an action, i.e. ‘tie up, bundle up’.
Thus it seems likely that use of for ‘bundle’
(noun) derives from its use for the verb ‘bundle’.
Ma sees ‘tie up’ as original sense. ‘Govern,
manage’ may be seen as an extended meaning.
KJ1970:647; OT1968:490; SS1984:583;
MR2007:345. Suggest taking as a box.
Mnemonic: MANAGE TO PUT BOX-LIKE BUN-
DLE UP INTO TREE
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