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562
側
SOKU, -gawa, soba
side
L3
11 strokes
SOKUMENside, flank
migigawaright side
sobazukaevalet
Bronze ; seal . Has 41 ‘person’ and
764 (‘mark with knife, engrave’; now means
‘model’:) as phonetic with associated sense
‘lean to one side’, to give ‘person leaning to
one side, lame’; ‘side’ is an extended sense.
MS1995:v1:76-7; KJ1970:646; YK1976:335.
Mnemonic: BE AT SIDE OF MODEL PERSON
563
続
ZOKU, tsuzuku/keru
continue, series
L3
13 strokes
ZOKUZOKUsuccessively
RENZOKUcontinuity
tetsuzukiprocedure
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .
Has 29 ‘thread’, and 206 (‘exchange’)/
211 (‘sell’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘join, link’, to give overall meaning ‘join up
broken thread’; sense extended through generalization
to ‘join up, continue’. YK1976:337;
KJ1970:46; MS1995:v2:1026-7.
Mnemonic: CONTINUE TO SELL THREADS
564
L3
卒
8
SOTSU
soldier, end, die, sudden
strokes
SOTSUGYŌgraduation
HEISOTSUsoldier
SOKKYOdeath
Seal . Seal has 444 ‘garment’, with a
mark Typically the mark is taken as showing
a way of making the garment distinctive
for use by a particular group, namely slaves or
low-ranking servants, possibly by using dyes;
the garment may have been a lightweight one
to wear on top. In this view, overall meaning
of is ‘dyed garment’ (Katō, Yamada), and
senses such as ‘sudden’ and ‘die’ are loan usages.
In contrast, Shirakawa attributes a ritualistic
significance, considering ‘die’ to be the main
meaning of this graph, based on it originally
showing an upper garment for a dead person,
with the element showing a cord for tying;
a similar type of garment was later worn also
by low-ranking servants and soldiers. In Shirakawa’s
treatment, the sense ‘sudden’ appears
to be a loan usage. KJ1970:651-2; YK1976:338;
OT1968:139; MS1995:v1:168-9; SS1984:556.
Suggest take as ‘ten’ 35, as ‘men, persons’
(see 41), and as ‘top hat’.
Mnemonic: TEN SOLDIER-MEN IN TOP HATS
565
L3
孫
10
SON, mago
descendants, grandchildren
strokes
SHISONdescendants
magobikirequotation
magomusumegranddaughter
OBI ; seal . Generally taken as 27 ‘child,
offspring’ as semantic, with another element
interpreted tentatively and variously. Mizukami
identifies the second element as 29 ‘thread’,
which later becomes 855 (‘joined threads’),
with associated sense in either case being ‘link,
join’, and provisional overall meaning ‘those
who follow after children’, i.e. ‘grandchildren’.
Mizukami also notes several other proposals:
firstly, 1297 (‘fine thread’), noted as one
possibility by Katō alongside to give ‘those
who follow after children’ or alternatively
(‘fine thread’ > ‘small’), part of Yamada’s analysis.
Yamada treats here as both semantic and
phonetic, meaning ‘come later, follow’, to give
‘small/young ones who follow children’, i.e.
‘grandchildren’. MS1995:v1:352-3; KJ1970:652;
YK1976:339.
Mnemonic: DESCENDANTS ARE CHILDREN IN
THREAD-LIKE LINEAGE
188 The 200 Fourth Grade Characters