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897
L1
樹
JU, ki
tree, stand
16 strokes
JUSHIresin
JURITSUfounding
JUHIbark
OBI forms , ; seal . OBI forms have
73 ‘tree’, and other elements regarding which
analyses differ. Tōdō and Ogawa take as 尌 ,
which they interpret as depicting a large drum
being set up (by hand [ 920 ‘measure’, originally
pictograph of a hand]) on a stand (see
also 473), and by extension ‘set upright’ ( 尌 appears
to be analyzed here as including 379
[originally, pictograph of a round vessel standing
on a stem; in Tōdō’s word-family ‘stand upright’;
‘beans; miniature’]); combining with the
left-hand element , the overall sense is ‘plant
trees (and by extension other plants)’. It should
be mentioned that OBI forms for in some
occurrences have a different graph for ‘hand’ in
place of , i.e. (modern sense ‘again’ 2003;
originally ‘hand’, sometimes taken to denote
‘right hand’), or 78 (originally a pictograph
showing what is probably an arm and hand;
‘strength, effort’). Katō and Mizukami, though,
treat differently: Katō takes (including
the alternative shapes with replaced by
or ) as consisting of ‘tree’, with//,
and as phonetic with associated sense ‘set/
stand upright’, giving ‘plant vegetation by
hand’. Yamada accounts for the middle-top element
(modern ) as originally representing
shoots of vegetation emerging. TA1965:281-4;
OT1968:525; MS1995:v1:688-9; KJ1970:227-8;
YK1976:247-8. We suggest taking the central
elements as 35 ‘ten’ and 379 ‘bean ‘.
Mnemonic: MEASURE TEN BEANS NEXT TO
STANDING TREE
898
L3
収
SHŪ, osameru/maru
obtain, supply, store
4 strokes
SHŪNYŪsalary
SHŪEKIgains
SHŪYŌcapacity
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has , which here is not 2003 ‘again’
(originally ‘hand’), but a corruption of ()
112 ‘hit with stick (or similar); compel’, and 丩
‘intertwine’ (originally, pictograph of intertwined
vines, string or similar) as phonetic with
899
宗
SHŪ, SŌ
religion, main
L1
8 strokes
SHŪKYŌreligion
SŌKEmain family
SHŪHAsect
associated sense taken variously as ‘see/watch
over’ or ‘draw together’ (both listed by Mizukami),
‘search exhaustively’ (Yamada), or ‘supervise’
(Katō). The overall sense is felt to be ‘search
for and capture’ (Yamada, Katō, Mizukami);
Mizukami also lists ‘bring together that which
is separate/scattered’ as an alternative meaning.MS1995:v1:566-7,12-13;
KJ1970:511-12;
YK1976:248-9; OT1968:154. We suggest taking
丩 as a pitchfork.
Mnemonic: HAND OBTAINS PITCHFORK
FROM SUPPLY STORE
OBI ; seal . Has 30 ‘roof, building’,
and 723 (‘altar’/‘show’), typically taken as
semantic and phonetic with meaning ‘altar’,
giving ‘(main) building where a deity is’; by
extension, ‘religion’. KJ1970:644; YK1976:250;
MS1995:v1:366-7; OT1968:274.
Mnemonic: BUILDING WITH ALTAR IS MAIN
CENTER OF RELIGION
278 The 181 Sixth Grade Characters