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1682
L1
脱
DATSU, nugu
take off, shed, escape
11 strokes
DATSUIundressing
DAPPIemergence
DASSHUTSUescape
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 209
‘meat, body’, and (NJK; ‘shaman, one who
pleases the deities; see Note below) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘come off, remove’, thus
‘grow thin’. ‘Escape; take off/shed (clothes)’ are
extended senses. Note: ( 兑 ) is typically taken
as showing person 41 with mouth 22 on
top, signifying ‘call out, pray’, with ‘eight’ /
70 in its other meaning ‘disperse, out, away, off’;
taken here as indicating either ‘words directed
to the deities, pray’ by a shaman (Katō), or ‘manifestation
of the spirit of the deities’ (Shirakawa).
KJ1970:603; MS1995:v1:92-5; OT1968:823;
SS1984:560; TA1965:548-9. Suggest ‘elder
brother’ 114, as ‘off’, plus ‘body’ .
Mnemonic: ELDER BROTHER TAKES CLOTHES
OFF BODY AND ESCAPES
1683
L1
奪
14
DATSU, ubau
snatch, capture,
captivate
strokes
DASSHUseizure
DAKKAIrecovery
ubaisarucarry off
Bronze ; seal . Bronze has (324
‘bird’ between upper and lower elements
of ‘clothing’, here in sense of ‘cover’ 444),
meaning ‘bird flies off/about to fly off’;
beneath there is 2003 ‘hand’, giving the
overall meaning ‘bird flies off out of the hand’
(Katō), or ‘covered bird about to flap wings
and escape’ (Gu). The seal form has the three
elements , 56 ‘big’, and; interpretations
of this combination differ. In all cases
is taken as ‘bird’, and as ‘hand’, but in
one view here is taken as ‘person’ (Tōdō),
while another analysis takes as phonetic
with associated sense ‘get loose’ (Katō), and
alternatively again is taken as an abbrevia-
tion of as in the bronze form (Gu). Ogawa,
for his part, interprets and as making
up one compound part of , i.e. 奞 ‘bird flaps
its wings’. Despite these various differences,
overall meaning of the seal form is still typically
considered to be ‘bird flies off out of the
hand’, though Mizukami notes an alternative
interpretation as ‘’pull out from under the arm
a bird caught in hunting’. ‘Captivate’ may be
seen as an extended sense, but views diverge
as to whether ‘seize, deprive someone of
something’ should be regarded as an extended
sense or a loan use in relation to ‘bird
flies off’. It appears to have been at the clerical
script stage that was replaced by 920,
also meaning ‘hand’; the substitution of
‘hand’ for in this way was not uncommon.
MS1995:v1:306-7; GY2008:241; KJ1970:678;
QX2000:76; OT1968:289; ZY2009:v1:199;
SK1984:195. Take as variant of ‘big’ .
Mnemonic: CAPTIVATING BIG BIRD
SNATCHED FROM HAND
1684
L1
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 73
‘wood, tree’, and (‘friend’; see Note below)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘stick close
together’, giving (a structure such as) ‘cover/
shelves made of wood or reeds’ (Tōdō), or
‘(temporary) bridge’ (Ogawa). Note: at the
OBI stage, the above graph for ‘friend’ was
originally ‘shell currency on two strings’, writ-
棚
tana
shelf, trellis
12 strokes
HONdanabookshelf
todanacupboard
tanaagepigeonhole
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