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930
L1
奏
9
SŌ, kanaderu
play instrument,
report to ruler
strokes
BANSŌaccompaniment
SŌGAKUDŌconcert hall
SŌJŌreport to ruler
OBI ; seal . In some cases OBI through to seal
forms have two hands as an element. The other
element is open to interpretation, some taking
it as representing a bleached skeleton of an ani-
mal, cut open and offered as a sacrifice to the
gods (Katō, Yamada, Mizukami), while others
see it as an offering in the form of luxuriant vegetation
(Ogawa) or grains (Gu) – perhaps the
more likely. ‘Report to ruler’ is probably extended
meaning, and ‘play instrument’ borrowed.
YK1976:325-6; KJ1970:777; MS1995:v1:302-4;
GY2008:171; OT1968:249. Suggest lower part as
‘heaven’ 62 and ‘two’ 65 ‘big men’ 56.
Mnemonic: TWO BIG MEN PLAY HEAVENLY
MUSIC TO RULER
931
窓
SŌ, mado
window
L3
11 strokes
madoguchi(clerk’s) window
demadobay/bow window
DŌSŌSEIfellow pupil
Seal forms , ; late graph (Shuowen). Originally
pictograph of simple shape depicting a
lattice window; later, 860 ‘hole, cave’ was
added as a reinforcing determinative, resulting
in . The seal form in Shuowen is equivalent
to , which has 164 ‘heart, feeling’ added,
but there is no satisfactory explanation of the
role of as yet. YK1976:328; OT1968:742;
MS1995:v2:976-7; KJ1970:586. Suggest taking
as ‘hole’ , ‘feeling’ , and ‘nose’ .
Mnemonic: FEELING NOSEY ABOUT HOLE IN
WINDOW
932
創
SŌ, hajimeru
start, wound
L1
12 strokes
SŌZŌimagination
SŌRITSUSHAfounder
JŪSŌbullet wound
Bronze ( 刅 [original graph later modified to
; seal forms , . Original graph has /
198 ‘knife, sword, cut’, with , a shape here
considered to be an abbreviation or error for
a four-stroke criss-cross shape element (felt
to represent window lattice) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘wound, injure’, giving ‘wound
with knife’; later, the element was replaced
by 559 (warehouse) as phonetic, with
same associated sense. ‘Start’ is a borrowed
meaning. MS1995:v1:122-3; YK1976:328-9;
KJ1970:592,588-9.
Mnemonic: THE WOUND STARTED WITH A
KNIFE-CUT IN THE WAREHOUSE
933
L3
装
12
SŌCHIdevice
ISHŌclothing
HENSŌdisguise
SŌ, SHŌ, yosoou
wear, clothing,
equipment, adorn
strokes
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .
Has 444 ‘clothing’, and /1628 (‘manly,
strong’) as phonetic with associated sense
taken as either i] ‘wrap clothing away’, giving
‘put away, prepare’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘long and
slender/narrow’, giving ‘wear a long garment’
(Tōdō). The association with clothing appears
to have given rise to the extended sense ‘gear/
equipment’. ‘Adorn’ is a loan usage. OT1968:904;
TA1965:378-80; DJ2009:v2:682. Suggest taking
the components of , i.e. ‘bed’ 739 and
‘samurai’ 521.
Mnemonic: SAMURAI WEARS MANLY
CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT IN BED
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