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1886
L1
罷
HI, makaru
cease, leave, go
15 strokes
HIGYŌstop-work, strike
HIMENdismissal
makarideruwithdraw
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has () 570
‘net’, with 787 (‘ability’, see also ‘bear’
1252) as phonetic with associated sense taken
as i] ‘withdraw’, thus original meaning ‘remove
a net’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘withdraw, abandon’, thus
‘abandon net previously set up’ (Katō). However,
Shirakawa takes here as showing wild
animal caught in net, thus meanings such as
‘tire’ and ‘give up’, but this is at odds with his
separate analysis of as an independent
graph, for which he takes the original meaning
as ‘aquatic insect’. OT1968:796; KJ1970:690-91;
SS1984:715,675. We suggest taking as a
bear.
Mnemonic: CEASE WORK AND GO, LEAVING
BEAR IN NET
1887
L1
避
HI, sakeru
avoid
16 strokes
KAIHIavoidance
FUKAHIunavoidable
HININcontraception
OBI ; seal . OBI form has ‘go’, combining
with elements for ‘person’ and ‘needle’
(see Note below). At the seal stage, was
replaced by 85 ‘go, move’ as determinative
(same meaning), and also by (NJK, ‘submit
to punishment’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘lean/move to one side’, giving ‘move to
one side and avoid’. Note: In one analysis, OBI
forms of consist of an element equivalent
to 41 ‘kneeling/subservient person’,
combined with another element considered
to be similar to 1535 (originally, needle for
tattooing foreheads of slaves and criminals)
but different, yet still meaning ‘punishment’
(Katō); the overall meaning is ‘submit to
punishment; punishment’. Shirakawa inter-
prets the element similar to to denote a
curved knife (Gu also takes to be knife for
punishment), combined with 256 ‘person
lying stretched out’ here signifying a person in
side profile, and a roundish element which he
takes as a piece of flesh cut off from behind.
The roundish element, similar to 22 ‘mouth;
cavity, orifice’ and rare in OBI, becomes more
common in bronze (typically, rather more
rounded). In similar vein to Shirakawa there is
an interpretation of which involves taking
the roundish element next to a bending figure
as ‘anus’, combined with (originally, ‘needle
for tattooing criminals’, and by extension
‘penetration’), giving ‘anal penetration’ (again
as a form of punishment). OT1968:1016;
TA1965:518; MS1995:v2:1312-13,1276-7;
KJ1970:841-2; SS1984:510-11,766.
Mnemonic: MOVE TO AVOID NEEDLE IN THE
ANUS!!
Or: GO AWAY TO AVOID PUNISHMENT
1888
尾
BI, o
tail
L1
7 strokes
BIKOTSUtailbone, coccyx
KŌBIcopulation
shippo*tail
OBI ; seal . Interpreted as depicting the
tail of an animal in one view (Shirakawa).
However, it is more typically considered as
256 (corpse or slumped figure) serving as an
abbreviation for 1532 ‘buttocks’, combined
with 230 ‘hair, fur’, to give ‘hair around
buttocks’, or alternatively ‘female genitalia’.
‘Copulate’ is an extended sense. SS1984:717;
KJ1970:800; OT1968:295; MS1995:v1:406-08;
AS2007:511.
Mnemonic: TAIL IS HAIR BELOW BUTTOCKS
Or: CORPSE HAS A HAIRY TAIL
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