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1410
嗣
SHI, tsugu
heir, succeed to
L1
13 strokes
SHISHIheir
KŌSHIheir
KŌSHICrown Prince
Bronze ; seal . Bronze forms vary, some
having 22 ‘mouth/opening’ twice, leading
to same in seal form. Reason for doubling
of in some cases is not clear: it may be an
extraneous element added under influence of
the unusual positioning of the element of
in one particular bronze occurrence of .
This is noted by Katō, who, along with others,
takes this graph as 884 ‘bound volumes’
with 524 ‘regulate’, thus ‘put bamboo writing
strips in continuous order’; by extension,
‘succeed (someone), inherit’. Mizukami also lists
proposed OBI equivalents. MS1995:v1:242-4;
KJ1970:458; OT1968:192; AS2007:564.
Mnemonic: BOUND VOLUMES ARE
REGULATED BY HEIR
1411
L1
雌
SHI, mesu, me
female
14 strokes
SHIYŪgender
meushicow, heifer
meinubitch
Seal . Has 324 ‘short-tailed bird, bird’,
and (NJK ‘this’; see 1409 Note) as phonetic
with associated sense typically taken as ‘small’,
giving ‘smaller bird (compared with male)’,
thus ‘female bird’. Other associated senses for
as phonetic in include ‘matched with (a
partner)’ (listed by Mizukami). Sense generalized
to ‘female (of birds, game, etc.)’. Mizukami
lists proposed OBI and bronze equivalents also.
KJ1970:265; SS1984:376; MS1995:v2:1408-9.
Suggest taking as ‘sitting person’, 143 as
‘stop’.
Mnemonic: FEMALE PERSON STOPS AND
SITS, AND BIRD COMES ALONG
1412
L1
摯
15
SHI
serious, sincere, reach,
take, hold
strokes
SHINSHI nisincerely
SHINSHIKANTŌhard fight
OBI ; seal . Has 34 ‘hand’, and 1424
‘take, grasp’ as semantic and phonetic, thus
‘catch, seize’. Devised to represent a word in
early Chinese which was closely related to
that represented by . Modern meanings
of ‘sincere, serious’ are probably loan usage.
SS1984:377; OT1968:427; AS2007:616;
GY2008:1029; DJ2009:v3:978.
Mnemonic: GRASP HANDS AS A SIGN OF
SINCERITY
1413
賜
SHI, tamawaru
bestow
L1
15 strokes
SHIKAfurlough
ONSHIimperial gift
tamamono*gift, boon
Bronze ; seal . The OBI form has just
647 ‘change; easy’, a graph taken in one view
as originally signifying liquid being transferred
or changed from one vessel to another
(Gu, Schuessler), and by extension (Gu) ‘give,
bestow’. At the bronze stage, 10 ‘shell (currency),
valuables’ was added to clarify this extended
meaning (Gu). An alternative view takes
the element in as phonetic with associated
sense ‘push away from oneself’ (Mizukami),
giving ‘push something one owns towards
someone else’, and ‘bestow’ as an extended
sense. GY2008:1438; AS2007:566,569,199;
MS1995:v2:1244-5.
Mnemonic: BESTOWAL IS EASILY CHANGED
TO SHELL-MONEY
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