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L1
踪
15
SŌ
footprint, traces,
remains
strokes
SŌSEKIone’s whereabouts
SHISSŌdisappearance
SHISSŌSHA missing person
A very late post-Shuowen graph. Originally
written , comprising 54 ‘foot, leg’, and
(traditional form of ‘follow’ 902) as semantic
and phonetic, giving ‘footprints, track, remains’.
Later, the phonetic element was changed to
899 ‘religion’, resulting in the new form as
a popular variant. GY2008:1810; SS1984:455;
OT1968:976.
Mnemonic: FOOTPRINTS SHOW TRACES OF A
RELIGION
1644
燥
SŌ
dry, parch
L2
17 strokes
KANSŌdryness
SHŌSŌimpatience
KŌSŌCHI high dry ground
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 8 ‘fire’,
and 喿 (CO ‘noisy’; see Note below) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘water disappears’,
giving ‘water disappears in presence of fire’,
and hence ‘dry’. Note: 喿 consists of 73 ‘tree,
wood’, with , here representing not ‘mouths
of people’ (original sense of 405 ‘goods’),
but more specifically – based on the context
with ‘tree’ – as ‘mouths of birds’, giving ‘birds
singing/chirping in tree’, i.e. ‘noisy’. KJ1970:435;
MS1995:v1:242-3. We suggest taking as
three boxes.
Mnemonic: DRY THREE WOODEN BOXES BY
FIRE
Or: THREE MOUTHS IN A PARCHED TREE
WARN OF FIRE
1645
霜
SŌ, shimo
frost
L1
17 strokes
SŌGAIfrost damage
shimoyofrosty night
shimofuriNIKU marbled beef
Seal . Has 3 ‘rain’, here in the closely
related meaning ‘water vapor’, with 348
(‘mutual’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘divided into columns’ giving ‘frost columns
formed from water vapor’ (Ogawa), an impression
that might be created in some conditions.
Shuowen defines this graph as ‘that
which destroys and creates’, a reference to
frost destroying some vegetables and fruits
when it forms. Mizukami lists a proposed OBI
equivalent. DJ2009:v3:941; OT1968:1088;
MS1995:v2:1422-4.
Mnemonic: MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN RAIN AND FROST?
1646
騒
SŌ, sawagu/gashii Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 210
disturbance, noise ‘horse’, and NJK ‘flea’ acting in one view
L1
18 strokes
as semantic and phonetic, meaning ‘scratch,
claw at’, to give ‘horse rakes ground with
SŌONcacophony
hoof and is noisy/restless’. Gu, alternatively,
SŌDŌdisturbance
takes as signifying ‘restless’, to give either
ōsawagi uproar, chaos
‘horse is agitated’, or ‘groom horse with
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