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1490
L1
肖
SHŌ, ayakaru
resemble, lucky
7 strokes
SHŌZŌportrait
FUSHŌunlike
ayakarimonolucky person
Seal ; traditional . Has / 209 ‘flesh,
meat; body’, with 38 as semantic and
phonetic, meaning ‘little, small, make small’,
giving ‘small model (of a person)’, prob-
ably child and parents: then by extension,
‘resemble’. ‘Lucky’ is a minor meaning which
appears to be a further semantic extension
based on a belief of good fortune accruing
through resembling another – presumably
fortunate or successful – individual. Mizukami
lists several proposed bronze equivalents.
MS1995:v2:1068-70; OT1968:816.
Mnemonic: LITTLE ONE IS LIKE PARENTS IN
BODY AND IN LUCK
1491
L1
尚
8
SHŌSŌprematurity
KŌSHŌloftiness
naonaostill more
SHŌ, nao, tattobu
furthermore, raise,
esteem
strokes
Bronze ; traditional . Has 70 (‘eight’;
originally, ‘split, disperse, away’), typically
taken as semantic and phonetic (Katō prefers
instead to take as depicting a vent), with
294 (‘turn, face’), a graph which originally
signified a window or vent high up, possibly
north-facing, giving ‘smoke rises up through
window/vent and disperses’. This meaning
was later generalized to ‘rise’, and extended to
‘raise up; esteem’. ‘Furthermore’ is a loan usage.
The top centre stroke of this graph represents
the first stroke of . MS1995:v1:400-01;
KJ1970:544-5; OT1968:292; TA1965:341.
Mnemonic: FURTHERMORE, FACING AWAY IS
A SIGN OF ESTEEM
1492
昇
SHŌ, noboru
rise, ascent
L1
8 strokes
SHŌSHINpromotion
JŌSHŌascent
SHŌKŌKIelevator
1493
沼
SHŌ, numa
swamp, marsh
L1
8 strokes
SHŌKImarsh gas, methane
SHŌTAKUswamp, marsh
numaCHImarshland
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 42
‘water’ and 1486 (‘summon’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken as i] ‘curve, bend’,
Seal ; a late graph (later version of Shuowen).
Has 66 ‘sun, day’, and 1485 (unit of
measure) as phonetic with associated sense
‘rise’, giving ‘sun rises’; later generalized to ‘rise’.
KJ1970:540; OT1968:462; SS1984:438. We suggest
taking as ‘ten’ 35 and ‘person’ 41.
Mnemonic: SUN RISES OVER TEN PERSONS
thus ‘pond of curving shape’ (Tōdō, Ogawa), or
ii] ‘small’, thus ‘small pond’ (Katō). Tōdō suggests
focus of curving shape was either bottom or
edges of a pond. Shirakawa disputes ‘curve’
as an associated sense, and takes meaning of
to be ‘(natural) pond’, as does Gu. ‘Swamp/
marsh’ seems to be a specific meaning in
Japanese only. TA1965:246; OT1968:566;
KJ1970:608; SS1984:438; GY2008:717.
Mnemonic: SUMMON WATERS OF SWAMP
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