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816
L3
夢
MU, yume
dream
13 strokes
MUCHŪabsorbed
AKUMUnightmare
yumemirufancy, dream
Seal form A ; seal form B . Shuowen has as
separate entries, seemingly taking them as
representing same word ‘dream’. Form B, later
prevailing, has 46 ‘moon, night’ and as
phonetic with associated sense ‘cannot see
clearly; dark’, in one view ‘dark night’ (Katō,
Ogawa; for them ‘dream’ is loan usage). Form
A includes 30 ‘roof, building’ and 739
‘bed’, but Qiu feels these were misunderstood
by Shuowen compiler Xu Shen. Later, top four
strokes of Form B were written as 53 ‘plants’.
KJ1970:848; DJ2009:553,601-2; QX2000:230-
31; OT1968:232. Take as ‘grass’ 53, 76 as
‘eye(s)’, and as cover.
Mnemonic: COVER EYES AT NIGHT AND
DREAM OF GRASS
817
迷
MEI, mayou
lost, perplexed
L3
9 strokes
MEIROmaze
MEIMUillusion
mayoigolost child
Seal . Has 85 ‘road; walk’, and
220 (‘rice’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘unclear’, to give ‘walk without clear direction,
become lost’; by extension, ‘become perplexed’.
Mizukami also lists several proposed OBI
equivalents. MS1995:v2:1290-91; YK1976:468-9;
KJ1970:841; OT1968:998.
Mnemonic: RICE IS LOST – HOW PERPLEXING
818
L3
綿
14
MEN, wata
cotton,
cotton wool
strokes
MOMEN*cotton
watagedown, fluff
watagashicandy floss
Seal ; late graph (post-Shuowen). Seal form
has right and left elements switched. ( has
1232 [‘cloth’, originally tucked into belt], and
69 ‘white’ > ‘white [silk] cloth’), with 855 (‘join
fine threads’), thus overall sense ‘join white silk
threads’. In block script form, 29 may be abbreviation
of . Closely related to is ‘cotton’
(NJK, originally tree-cotton [ 73 ‘tree’]).
YK19 76:470-71; KJ1970:872; MS1995:v1:438-9;
QX2000:300,334.
Mnemonic: WHITE THREADS MAKE COTTON
CLOTH AND COTTON WOOL
819
L3
輸
YU
transport, send
16 strokes
YUSHUTSUexport
YUSŌtransportation
UNYUtransportation
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 33 ‘cart,
vehicle’, and (comprising 1450 ‘boat’, with
element taken as ‘blade for gouging out’ or
‘cast-off outer layer of cicada, etc.’ [Mizukami],
giving original sense ‘boat made by scraping
out inner part of log, leaving outer part’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘move (something)’;
resultant overall meaning is ‘transport
goods by vehicle’.YK1976:477; KJ1970:881;
MS1995:v1:100-01; OT1968:987. We suggest
taking 亼 as cover, as ‘cut’ 198, and as
‘meat’ 209.
Mnemonic: COVERED CART IS
TRANSPORTING CUT MEAT
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