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kami notes a different view that sees earth
piled up to a cone-shaped top (instead of
sapling), thus ‘cone-shaped altar or mound’,
also able to indicate boundary. Support is
found in Schuessler for most of the above
views (‘mound, raise earth, boundary embankment’).
‘Shut, close off’ is an extended
sense. The seal form has changed to
another graph for ‘hand’, viz. 920; the
two were not always differentiated in use in
early texts. KJ1970:860; MS1995:v1:394-5;
GY2008:777; OT1968:287; AS2007:237. Take
left side as (double) piled ‘earth’ 64.
Mnemonic: HAND PILES UP EARTH TO
CLOSE OFF FIEF
1922
L1
伏
6
FUKU, fusu/seru
bow down, hide,
crouch, yield
strokes
KIFUKUundulations
SENPUKUlurking
fushitehumbly
Bronze ; seal . Has 41 ‘person’ with
19 ‘dog’. Views vary. One takes as dog at
person’s side, and so ‘conceal, hide’ (Ogawa),
presumably in hunting context. Similarly,
Tōdō takes as meaning ‘dog accompanies
owner’. In contrast, Gu takes as showing dog
lying in wait for a chance to attack someone.
The components are clear, but it is difficult to
establish the original meaning of this graph.
OT1968:52; TA1965:153; GY2008:280.
Mnemonic: PERSON CROUCHES TO HIDE
FROM DOG
1923
幅
FUKU, haba
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 1232
width, scroll
‘piece of cloth’, with 畐 409 (‘bulbous/full wine
L2
12 strokes
jar’) as phonetic with associated sense taken
as i] ‘swollen’, thus ‘cloth swollen sideways,
SHINPUKUamplitude
width’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘full’ or ‘distance between’,
GAFUKUpicture scroll
thus ‘distance from left to right, width’ (Katō).
yokohababreadth
KJ1970:828; OT1968:319. Take 畐 as ‘field’ 63,
one 1, and ‘entrance’ 22.
Mnemonic: ONE CLOTH SPANS WIDTH OF
ENTRANCE TO FIELD
1924
覆
FUKU, ōu,
Seal . Has ‘stopper, cover’ (originally a
kutsugaeru/su
pictograph; not a variant of similarly-shaped
L1
overturn, cover 169 ‘west’), combined with 803 (‘again,
18 strokes
repeat’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘wrap, envelop’, giving ‘cover’. ‘Overturn’ is a loan
usage. MS1995:v2:1176-7; OT1968:913. We suggest
taking as ‘west’.
FUKUMENmask
TENPUKUoverturn
FUKUSUIspilt water
Mnemonic: WEST OVERTURNED AGAIN!
MUST BE COVER STORY!
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