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1912
L2
符
FU
tally, sign
11 strokes
KIPPUticket
FUGŌsymbol, code
FUGŌagreement
Bronze ; seal . Consists of 58 ‘bamboo’,
with 602 (‘attach’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘join/fit together’, giving
‘join together two pieces of tally stick’
(historically, a tally stick in the form of a
bamboo stick/tablet or similar was broken
in two to mark an agreement between two
parties). By extension, ‘record, a sign’. Confirmation
of the close connection between the
word for ‘adjoin’ and the near-homophone
‘tally’ in early Chinese is found in Schuessler.
MS1995:v2:986-7; OT1968:749; TA1965:319-
22; AS2007:244.
Mnemonic: JOIN BAMBOO TALLIES AS A
SIGN
1913
L2
普
FU, amaneku
widely,generally
12 strokes
FUTSŪordinary, usual
FUHENuniversality
FUKYŪdiffusion
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
暜 . Has 66 ‘sun, day’, with (traditional
form of 977 ‘row, line’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as i] ‘thin, faint’, thus
‘sunlight is faint’ (Katō) or ii] ‘spread out’,
thus ‘sunlight extends everywhere’ (Ogawa),
and ‘widely, generally’ as an extended sense.
The latter view is supported by Schuessler,
who details a relevant word-family in early
Chinese for the phonetic element here
which encompasses ‘spread out, be vast;
extensively’. KJ1970:825-6; OT1968:472;
AS2007:173.
Mnemonic: GENERALLY, ONE DAY FOLLOWS
ANOTHER IN A ROW
1914
腐
FU, kusaru/reru
rot(ten), decay, bad
L1
14 strokes
FUSHINtake pains to
FUHAIdecay, rot
kusare-wretched, useless
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 209
‘meat, flesh, body’ with 603 (‘govt office’)
as phonetic with associated sense taken as i]
‘swollen and disordered’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘decay’
(Katō), both giving ‘meat breaks down,
goes bad’. OT1968:824; KJ1970:823-4.
Mnemonic: MEAT IN GOVERNMENT OFFICE
IS ROTTEN
1915
敷
FU, shiku
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has / 112
spread, lay
‘beat with stick’, with CO 尃 593 ‘spread out
L1
15 strokes
the fingers’ (see Note below) as semantic
and phonetic (Ogawa; alternatively, Katō
FUSETSUlaying
treats as phonetic only, with generalized
shikimonorug
meaning ‘spread out’ as associated sense),
yashikimansion, residence
giving ‘beat (something) with stick to spread
it out’. Left-hand element of is a variant
of 尃 ; forms close to can be found
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