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1476
殉
JUN
dutiful death
L1
10 strokes
JUNSHIdutiful death
JUNKYŌSHAmartyr
JUNSHOKUdeath at post
A late graph (Yupian). Has 302/520 ‘bone
fragment’ or ‘top of spine’, a determinative
which acquired the frequent connotation
‘death/serious injury’, and 1472 (‘ten-day period’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘follow’,
giving ‘follow in death’. The practice of following
one’s lord in death was not uncommon in
earlier times. OT1968:544; KJ1970:531-2,312;
SS1984:425-6; MS1995:708-9.
Mnemonic: DUTIFUL DEATH, BUT JUST
BONES AFTER TEN DAYS
1477
循
JUN
follow
L1
12 strokes
JUNKANcircle, cycle
AKUJUNKANvicious circle
INJUNindecision
1478 L1
潤
JUN
moisten, enrich
15 strokes
JUNKATSUlubrication
RIJUNprofit
JUNTAKUmoisture, profit
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42 ‘water’,
and (NJK ‘intercalary month’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘exist in excess’, giving
‘have plentiful liquid’. Note: has 5 (‘king,
ruler’) as phonetic from seal stage onwards,
and has generally been taken as meaning
the emperor being in his palace for a calendri-
1479
遵
JUN
follow, obey
L1
15 strokes
JUNSHUconformity
JUNPŌobservance of law
JUNPŌ suruobey the law
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 131
‘road; go, move’, and 1474 (‘shield’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘follow’, giving
‘follow a route, follow after’; loan usage for ‘go
round, revolve’ (Mizukami, Katō). Mizukami
lists a proposed OBI equivalent. OT1968:353;
MS1995:v1:488-9; GY2008:1464; KJ1970:518-9.
Mnemonic: FOLLOW, MOVING BEHIND SHIELD
cal ritual. However, based on passage in Erya
(an encyclopaedic dictionary probably dating
back to ca. 3 rd century BC), Shirakawa maintains
that the phonetic in this graph was originally
probably not but 785 ‘thread spool’,
(also here with associated sense ‘excess; big’),
a graph which at the seal stage was already
very close in shape to , hence the possibility
of confusion between the two. DJ2009:v3:916;
MS1995:v2:850-51; GY2008:1136; SS1984:426-
7. Suggest taking as 231 ‘gate’ and ‘ 5
king’.
Mnemonic: KING AT GATE GETS MOISTENED
WITH ENRICHING WATER
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
form has for 939 (‘respect’) on the right.
Has 85 ‘walk, go’, and as phonetic with
associated sense ‘follow closely, follow’, giving
‘follow, obey’. GY2008:1838,1489; TA1965:693;
OT1968:1014.
Mnemonic: MOVING OBEDIENTLY
FOLLOWING RESPECTED WAY
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