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flecting the use in Shang times of a sequence of
ten (the Ten Stems, used in conjunction with the
Twelve Branches to make up a recurring cycle of
sixty to indicate years for dating purposes). At
the bronze stage, 66 ‘day, sun’ was added as
determinative for clarity; in the resultant graph
, serves as semantic and phonetic, meaning
‘go round’. Bronze also has a variant form (noted
in Shuowen) which instead of has (‘equal’;
later 681 q.v.), a graph which originally meant
‘go round’. MS1995:v1:608-10,146-7; KJ1970:67;
SS1984:425; OT1968:460.
Mnemonic: TEN DAY CYCLE OF CIRCLING SUN
1473
L1
巡
JUN, meguru
go around
6 strokes
JUNSApoliceman
JUNKAItour, patrol
hitomegurione round
1474
盾
JUN, tate
shield, pretext
L1
9 strokes
MUJUNcontradiction
ushirodatebacking
tatetsukuoppose
Bronze ; seal . For OBI and some bronze occurrences,
Mizukami lists a pictograph of a shield,
but in bronze also a compound graph consisting
Bronze ; seal . Has 85 ‘walk, go, move’,
and , a variant of 50 ‘river’. is taken here
either semantically as ‘river’, giving ‘go round
following a set route’ (Ogawa), or as phonetic
with associated sense ‘see, gaze at’, giving ‘walk
while looking’ (Katō). ‘Go round’ is treated as
a loan usage by Katō. MS1995:v1:426-7,422-3;
KJ1970:528; OT1968:993.
Mnemonic: MOVING RIVER GOES AROUND
SHARP BENDS
of 76 ‘eye’, with a second element representing
a protective shade, thus ‘eye-shield’; by extension,
‘shield’ as used in combat. On the basis of
word-family association, Katō takes as ‘a device
to hide behind (and look out from)’, by extension
‘pretext’. MS1995:v2:916-7; OT1968:696;
SS1984:425; KJ1970:570-71. We suggest taking