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1188
宜
GI, yoroshii
proper, good
L1
8 strokes
TEKIGIsuitability
BENGIconvenience
yoroshikubest regards
1189
偽
GI, nise, itsuwaru
false, lie
L1
11 strokes
nisemonoforgery
GIZENhypocrisy
itsuwarimonoliar
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional form
has as right-hand element. Comprises 41
person, and 1017 (‘do; purpose’), the latter
typically taken as phonetic with associated
OBI ; seal . In a short entry ( 宐 ), Kangxi zidian
notes 宐 as the original way of writing , but
otherwise uses the shape , which has long
served as the orthodox form. OBI and bronze
forms have outer contour taken as outline of a
chopping board, on which there is another element
doubled, showing ‘meat’ ( 209), thus
‘meat offering’. The outer contour could perhaps
be taken to represent cover or roof, and this
might explain the seal form, which shows 30
‘roof, building’. Meanings such as ‘proper, proper
conduct; good’ may be taken as extended
senses deriving from what was regarded as
proper conduct in offering meat to the deities.
MS1995:v1:362-3; KJ1970:257; OT1968:274;
TA1965:592; DJ2009:v1:236. Suggest taking as
1135 ‘cairn, furthermore’.
Mnemonic: FURTHERMORE, CAIRN HAS A
GOOD AND PROPER ROOF
sense ‘change appearance’, giving ‘someone
changes appearance/changes into someone
else’ (with negative connotation), and hence
‘deceive; false’. Ogawa – perhaps less convincingly
– takes / differently as having
a semantic role here, giving ‘person does’,
and ‘deceit’ as an extended sense. KJ1970:19;
TA1965:607-10; OT1968:73.
Mnemonic: A PERSON DOES LIE FOR FALSE
PURPOSES
1190
欺
GI, azamuku
cheat, deceive
L1
12 strokes
SAGIfraud
GIMANdeception
azamukitorudefraud
1191
L1
儀
GI
ceremony, rule
15 strokes
GISHIKIceremony
GITENrite, ritual
REIGI etiquette
Seal . Has 496 (‘yawn, lack’), and 269
(orig winnowing basket) as phonetic, usually
taken with associated sense ‘be weary’,
thus ‘very weary, yawn’ (Katō). Mizukami lists
another associated sense for , i.e. ‘coerce
sternly’, thus ‘coerce with stern expression’.
‘Cheat, deceive’ is loan usage. MS1995:v1:698-9;
OT1968:534; KJ1970:240.
Mnemonic: LACKS WINNOWING BASKET SO
RESORT TO CHEATING
Seal . Has 41 ‘person’, and 674 ‘righteous’,
giving ‘person who is careful in conduct
or appearance/person who serves as model to
others’; by extension, ‘exemplar, good conduct,
ceremony’. Mizukami also lists some bronze
forms of as proposed equivalents of .
KJ1970:142-3; MS1995:v1:82-3; OT1968:81.
Mnemonic: RIGHTEOUS PERSON OBEYS
RULES IN CEREMONIES
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