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907
L3
処
SHO
deal with, place
5 strokes
SHORImanagement
SHOCHImeasures
SHOSHOhere and there
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Interpretations
vary. One view takes as ‘sit on stool,
rest’ (’stool, rest’, with [‘descending foot’,
see Appendix] as phonetic with associated
sense ‘sit’), with (originally, pictograph of tiger
head: see 297 and 1301) as additional phonetic
with associated sense ‘sit’ (Yamada). Gu, alternatively,
takes as here meaning ‘(wearing)
tiger-skin cap’. Mizukami’s treatment includes
i] a possible OBI equivalent interpreted as a
foot going inside, giving ‘go inside and rest’; ii]
bronze forms taken as a person leaning against
a rest, with ‘as semantic’ (sic), but appears to
be in error for ‘as phonetic’; iii] a seal form comprising
‘foot’, with ‘stool, rest’; Mizukami
908
署
SHO
govt office, sign
L3
13 strokes
SHOMEIsignature
SHOINofficial (person)
KEISATSUSHOpolice station
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has () 570
‘net’, and 314 (‘person’) as phonetic with
regards ‘be’ and ‘place’ as extended meanings.
Both Mizukami and Katō treat , , and a
third form 凥 (Mizukami interprets the latter
as ‘sit on stool’ or ‘lean against armrest’, and as
comprising 256 [normally ‘person lying’ or
‘squatting’ or ‘corpse’] here as a variant shape
for ‘person’, with ‘rest, stool’) all as alternative
forms of the same graph. Ogawa alone considers
to be the original way of writing , but
Katō suggests the more complex forms may
be earlier (except for Mizukami’s proposed OBI
equivalent noted above). It is unclear as to how
the present meanings came about, though in
one view sitting down in a given place might
perhaps indicate sitting in judgment to deal
with a situation. YK1976:263-4; GY2008:184;
MS1995:v1:118-20,v1:414-5; KJ1970:533-4;
OT1968:107. We suggest taking the graph as
sitting cross-legged on a stool.
Mnemonic: SIT CROSS-LEGGED ON STOOL TO
DEAL WITH THE SITUATION
associated sense ‘set up, place’, giving ‘set up a
net to catch birds and animals’. To catch these,
there were beaters or assistants, each with their
own role, and so by extension ‘role’, ‘post of
duty’, and by further extension ‘government office’.
‘Sign, record’ are regarded as loan usages.
YK1976:265; KJ1970: 496; OT1968:796.
Mnemonic: PERSON IS NETTED AND SIGNS
UP FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICE
909
諸
SHO, moro
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 118
various, many
‘words; speak’, and 314 (originally, firewood
L3
15 strokes
piled up in container; ‘person’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘many, numerous’, giving
SHOTŌarchipelago
‘many words, eloquent’. Later generalized to
SHOKUNeveryone
‘many’ and by extension ‘various’. Mizukami lists
moroteboth hands
bronze forms, all of which lack . YK1976:266;
KJ1970:495-6; OT1968:934; MS1995:v2:1206-7.
Mnemonic: PERSON’S WORDS ARE MANY
AND VARIED
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