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1991
L1
奔
HON
run, bustle
8 strokes
HONSŌbustle
HONPŌuninhibited
SHUPPONabsconding
Bronze form A ; bronze form B ; seal .
Bronze forms show some variation. Figure
in Form A is taken to show person with
legs apart to indicate running while waving
arms, with143 ‘stop’ in its original sense
‘foot’ written three times, giving overall
meaning ‘run fast’. Bronze form B seems to
be person standing legs astride, waving,
beneath which there is not but (NJK;
‘vegetation, grass’) acting here as phonetic
with associated sense ‘hurry’, also giving
‘run fast’ as overall meaning. Upper part of
seal form corresponds to (CO; ‘young, die
young’), a graph originally showing a figure
with the added feature of a tilted head, and
has the lower element , again as phonetic.
Clerical forms show transitional stage: trend
is already to have at the top, not , and
at least one clerical occurrence is almost
identical to . MS1995:v1:304-5,296-8;
KJ1970:866-7; SK1984:194; QX2000:196;
GY2008:134; OT1968:248. Take as ‘big
(man)’ 53, and three ‘tens’ 35.
Mnemonic: THIRTY BIG MEN RUNNING AND
BUSTLING
1992
翻
HON, hirugaeru/su
flap, change
L1
18 strokes
HON’YAKUtranslation
HON’Ichange of mind
hirugaetteon second thought
Seal ; late graph (later version of Shuowen).
Has 82 ‘wings, plumage’, with 215
(‘turn, number; guard’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken as i] ‘flap in a flat
manner’, giving ‘bird flaps wings and flies’
(Shirakawa), or ii] ‘return’, here referring to
a bird returning its wings repeatedly to the
same point, similarly giving ‘move wings up
and down and fly’ (Ogawa). By extension,
‘turn, change’. SS1984:808; OT1968:804.
Mnemonic: WINGS FLAP, CHANGING IN TURN
1993
L1
凡
3
BON, HAN, oyoso
mediocre, dull, common,
broadly
strokes
HEIBONmediocrity
BONSENdull game
BONJINordinary person
OBI ; seal . Simple shape in OBI and
bronze makes it hard to tell what was meant
to be originally depicted, and analyses differ
markedly. Taken variously as a sail (Qiu),
a frame for putting soil in to pound firm
(Ogawa), and a bowl (Katō, Gu, Shirakawa).
Katō suggests in OBI/bronze the bowl is
shown on its side (different orientation can
be found in OBI and bronze), while Gu takes
it to be a bowl on legs or a stand. At the
seal stage, changed markedly in shape;
this seems hard to explain as entirely due
to stylization. Clerical script occurrences
vary, but the shape can already be seen.
QX2000:221; OT1968:107; KJ1970:782;
GY2008:38; SS1984:808; SK1984:88. Take
as table (see 845) and a scratch.
Mnemonic: IT’S COMMON FOR MEDIOCRE
TABLES TO HAVE A SCRATCH
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