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1483
L1
叙
JO
describe, confer
9 strokes
JOJUTSUdescription
JOJŌTEKIlyrical
JOKUNconferring honor
OBI ; seal ; traditional (also 112
is a variant of , meaning ‘strike, coerce’]). OBI
form has 2003 ‘hand’, with 820 (‘excess’,
‘ample’), typically taken as phonetic with
associated sense ‘sequence, put in sequence’,
giving ‘put in sequence, spread out in order’,
and by extension ‘set out (views, etc.), relate’;
the seal form replaces with ‘hit; compel,
make to do’, still with essentially the same
overall sense (‘make to be in order’). Gu, by
way of exception, takes not as phonetic
but semantic in function, signifying ‘roof’
(regarding original sense of in OBI, relating
to roof structure, see 820), thus overall
meaning ‘thatch a roof’, and by extension ‘put
in order’. ‘Confer’ is probably an extension of
sequencing. KJ1970:552; MS1995:v1:574-6;
GY2008:891-2; OT1968:155; DJ2009:v1:271.
Mnemonic: AMPLE DESCRIPTION OF HAND
1484
徐
JO, omomuro
slowly, gradually
L1
10 strokes
JOJO nislowly
JOKŌgoing slowly
JOHOwalking slowly
1485
升
SHŌ, masu
liquid measure
L1
4 strokes
masumea measure
NISHŌtwo shō
ISSHŌBIN1-shō bottle
OBI ; seal . Based on OBI forms listed by
Mizukami, it seems at that stage and
1766 ‘a measure’ may have been the same
graph. If so, differentiation in shape evolved
at the bronze stage: OBI forms of both graphs
show a scoop or ladle with something (seen
Seal . Has 131 ‘road; go’, and 820
(‘excess’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘gentle, slow’, giving ‘go slowly’. Mizukami lists
an ancestral OBI equivalent which lacks as
determinative. MS1995:v1:484-5; KJ1970:883;
OT1968:351.
Mnemonic: GO EXCESSIVELY SLOWLY
as liquid) in it, and this is retained in bronze
for (but not ). The depiction of a ladle
scooping up liquid gives the meaning ‘scoop
up’. This may have led to extended sense as
a unit of liquid measure if the ladle was of
standard size, otherwise ‘unit of measure’ (in
Japan today, equivalent to 1.8 litres) needs to
be seen as a loan use. Katō favors the latter
view. MS1995:v1:166-7,590-92; KJ1970:536-7;
OT1968:137. Take 35 ‘ten’ and 41 ‘person’.
Mnemonic: LIQUID MEASURE ENOUGH FOR
TEN PERSONS
1486
召
SHŌ, mesu
OBI ; seal . Seal onwards has 22 ‘mouth,
summon, partake,
L2
speak’, and 198 (‘knife, cut’) as phonetic
wear
with meaning usually taken as ‘call, invite’,
5 strokes
thus ‘call out, summon’. Another meaning
(noted by Mizukami) is ‘bend back and face
SHŌSHŪsummons, call
upwards’, thus ‘face upwards and call out’. The
SHŌKANsummons
more complex OBI form (in bronze also), is
meshitsukaiservant
taken to signify orig. ‘wine press made of willow
branches’, with ‘call, summon’ a loan us-
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