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1847
L1
剥
HAKU, hagu/gasu
peel, strip, deprive
10 strokes
HAKUDATSUdeprivation
HAKURIpeel off
hikihagu pull off, strip off
OBI ; seal . OBI form has /198 ‘knife’,
with 96 ‘perform divination’ as semantic and
phonetic. The early Chinese word underlying
was pronounced close to pok, and
was onomatopoeic for the sound of a bone
or tortoise shell cracking when heated as
part of the ancient Shang Dynasty divination
process. The two elements and thus
combine to give overall meaning ‘sever, split’,
extending to ‘strip skin off, flay’. At the seal
stage, a different form emerged, retaining
, but with 录 (CO, ‘strain/filter [wine]’,
or ‘carve’; see Note below) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘separate, split’ (Ogawa). By
when Shuowen was compiled, seems to
have become more dominant, being listed
in the entry heading, with a form similar to
the OBI (though it would have occurred in
a bronze text, as OBI texts were not known
to Shuowen compiler) listed as alternative.
Note: OBI and bronze forms of 录 are taken
as showing either i] wine strained through
bag to filter out sediment (this view listed
in Mizukami), or ii] wood chips falling from
wood being carved with chisel (Shirakawa).
MS1995:v1:132-4,474-5; AS2007:172,157;
SS1984:919-20; DJ2009:v2:364; GY2008:1157;
OT1968:119. Take as hand and 氺 as variant
‘water/liquid’ 42.
Mnemonic: HAND USES KNIFE TO
PEEL – STRANGE LIQUID DROPLETS EMERGE
1848
舶
HAKU
Very late post-Shuowen graph. Has 1450
ship, shipping
‘boat’, with 69 (‘white’) as phonetic with
L1
11 strokes
associated sense ‘big’, thus ‘ship, ocean-going
vessel’. Graph seen from Tang and Song
HAKURAIimportation
dynasties on, showing growth of international
SENPAKUshipping
maritime trade. KJ1970:773; OT1968:838;
HAKUYŌ marine-
SS1984:690.
Mnemonic: WHITE BOAT USED FOR SHIPPING
1849
薄
HAKU, usui/meru with similarly-shaped 925 (‘exclusive,
thin, weak, shallow, sole’), of which the traditional form is a
L2
light
little more distinctive in shape. has 42
16 strokes
‘water’ with 尃 , the latter taken in one view
as ‘field of plant seedlings’, and by extension
usugilight clothes
‘plant out seedlings’; sense then gen-
KEIHAKUfrivolity
eralized to ‘spread’ (Gu), though Shirakawa
usukawa thin skin
sees it as sapling roots being trussed up/
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). 53 ‘plants’,
bound. GY2008:1653,1012; KJ1970:772-
3; OT1968:874; MS1995:v1:256-8,394-5;
SS1984:693; AS2007:173. Suggest using ‘sole,’
(but ‘not quite right’/‘almost’) to represent
尃 , plus water and plants .
with (CO,‘watery expanse; vast’; see Note
below) as phonetic with associated sense
taken as i] ‘spread over/cover widely’, thus
‘grassy plain’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘get close’, thus
‘densely growing plants’ (Mizukawa, Katō).
‘Thin’ is a loan usage. Note: right-hand part of
the phonetic here is 尃 , not to be confused
Mnemonic: WEAK WATER-PLANTS ARE
ALMOST SOLELY IN SHALLOW WATER
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