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1918
譜
FU
notation, genealogy
L1
19 strokes
KEIFUgenealogy
GAKUFUmusical score
NENPUchronological record
1919
侮
BU, anadoru
scorn, despise
L1
8 strokes
BUJOKUinsult
KEIBUcontempt
BUMANoffence, insult
Seal ; a late graph (later version of Shuowen).
Consists of 118 ‘words; speak’ (here best
taken as ‘written words, text’), combined with
1913 (‘widely, generally’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘put in order, arrange’, giving
‘documents with material in set order’. Used for
a range of document types such as genealogies,
chronological lists, and musical scores.
SS1984:744; OT1968:944.
Mnemonic: GENEALOGY IS WIDELY SPOKEN
OF
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Has 41
‘person’, with (traditional form of 225
‘each, every’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘ignore, ridicule, despise’, thus ‘ridicule,
despise’. MS1995:v1:68-9; KJ1970:859;
SS1984:745; OT1968:61; GY2008:883.
Mnemonic: DESPISE EVERY PERSON
1920
舞
BU, mau
dance, flit
L2
15 strokes
BUTAIstage
maikodancing girl
furumaibehavior
OBI ; seal . At the OBI stage, and
620 ‘not have, not’ were written in the same
way, originally depicting a dancing figure with
what is interpreted as either holding oxtails
(Qiu, Ma), or wearing long decorative sleeves
(Ogawa, Shirakawa), either way giving ‘dance’
(possibly in a ritual sense). This graph mean-
ing ‘dance’ was later borrowed to represent
another word of similar pronunciation in early
Chinese meaning ‘not be, not have, not’, and
when this loan usage became common,
1278 (‘feet pointed away from each other’)
was added to the graph to indicate overtly the
original meaning ‘dance’. The idea of oxtails is
not as bizarre as it might seem (see 620).
QX2000:186-7,265; OT1968:837; MR2007:331;
MS1995:v2:1096-8; SS1984:746-7. Take upper
part as bound wheatsheaf.
Mnemonic: DANCING WITH POINTED FEET
AROUND BOUND WHEATSHEAF
1921
封
FŪ, HŌ
OBI ; seal . OBI and bronze forms vary
close off, fief
but are broadly similar, showing a sapling,
L2
9 strokes
in some cases with 2003 ‘hand’ as second
element to indicate planting. In ancient
FŪTŌenvelope
China planting trees often indicated a
FŪSAblockade
boundary, thus overall meaning is ‘plant
HŌKENfeudalism
sapling to mark boundary’; Gu considers the
sapling is being planted on a mound. Mizu-
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