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1562
酔
SUI, you
drunk, dizzy
L1
11 strokes
MASUIanesthesia
yopparaidrunkard
funayoisea-sickness
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .
Has 318 ‘wine’ (orig pictograph of wine
jar), and 564 ‘end, soldier’ as semantic and
phonetic, thus ‘finish drinking all wine offered’.
By extension, ‘become intoxicated’; also, ‘feel
sick’, ‘feel elated’. The form seems to be
based on cursivized forms circa Tang Dynasty
onwards. FC1974:v2:2285-6; OT1968:1026;
TA1965:694-5; GY2008:1791. Take right-hand
as 13 ‘nine’ and 35 ‘ten’.
Mnemonic: DRUNK AND DIZZY AFTER
NINETEEN JARS OF WINE
1563
L1
遂
SUI, togeru, tsui (ni)
attain, finally
12 strokes
SUIKŌattainment
MISUIattempt(ed)
shitogeruattain
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Has /
85 ‘go, walk, move’ and 89/ 1807 ‘wild
boar, wild pig’, plus 70 ‘eight’, in its original
sense ‘split’‘disperse’, taking as semantic
and phonetic, thus giving ‘(group of) wild
boar push others aside and move forward’
(Katō). In another view, is taken as phonetic
with associated sense ‘push forward’, thus
‘push and move forward’, hence ‘achieve, accomplish’
(Ogawa). It is difficult to determine
whether the meaning ‘finally’ is an extended
use from ‘achieve’, or a loan use of the graph.
OT1968:1006; KJ1970:578-9; WD1974:676.
Mnemonic: FINALLY ATTAIN ONE’S GOAL OF
MOVING EIGHT PIGS
1564
睡
SUI, nemuru
sleep
L1
13 strokes
SUIMINsleep
JUKUSUIsound sleep
GOSUInap, siesta
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 76
‘eye’ and 918 ‘suspend, hang, droop’. The
latter element is taken either as semantic and
phonetic, giving ‘lower eyelids’, and by extension
‘sleep’ (Ogawa, Gu), or as just phonetic
with associated sense ‘limp, flabby’, giving
‘eyes get tired and go limp’, with ‘sleep’ likewise
as the meaning by extension (Katō, Tōdō).
OT1968:701; GY2008:1584; KJ1970:577.
Mnemonic: DROOPY EYES LEAD TO SLEEP
1565
穂
SUI, ho
OBI ; seal form A ( ) ; seal form B () ;
ear/spear (of grain) traditional . The ancestral OBI form of this
L1
15 strokes
graph exhibits some variation, the form given
here has 2003 ‘hand’ with 198 ‘knife’
SUIJŌspear shape
over 87 ‘grain plant’, interpreted as ‘cut
inahoear of rice
grain; grain’ (Ma). At the seal stage, for this
hosakispearhead
graph Shuowen has – in seal form A – what
is considered to be a variant of the above,
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