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(Ogawa). The Kangxi zidian dictionary lists both
and , with the same meaning, but treats
the latter as auxiliary to , which stands as the
main entry. MS1995:v1:320-21; KJ1970:14-15;
TA1965:770-76; OT1968:255; ZY2009:v1:203-4.
Mnemonic: WOMAN GOING TO MARKET IS
AN ELDER SISTER
147
思
SHI, omou
think
L4
9 strokes
SHISŌideology
SHIKŌthought
omoiderecollection
A graph of relatively late occurrence, initial
forms and . Mizukami interprets the top
148
L4
紙
SHI, kami
paper
10 strokes
HYŌSHIbook cover
WASHIJapanese paper
tegamiletter
A late graph (Shuowen) . Traditionally the
invention of paper has been attributed to Cai
Lun, who did invent a type of coarse paper in
element as CO 囟 ‘skull’, with 164 ‘mind,
heart’; Ogawa is in agreement. Shirakawa
takes the top element to represent ‘brain’.
MS1995:v1:502-3; OT 1968:364; SS1984:368.
We suggest taking top element as 63 ‘field’
though it is incorrect as the etymology.
Mnemonic: I THINK MY HEART WILL ALWAYS
BE IN MY FIELD
AD105, but in earlier times scraps of different
fabrics and the like were used. Before paper
appeared, texts in China were written on various
materials, the closest to paper being silk.
This accounts for the use of 29, the ‘thread’
determinative. 522 (which originally represented
a ladle) serves as phonetic for ‘smooth’.
SS1984:370; OT1968:769; KJ1985:474.
Mnemonic: APPLY LADLE TO THREADS TO
MAKE PAPER
149
寺
JI, tera
temple
L3
6 strokes
RYŌANJIRyoan Temple
JIINBuddhist temple
yamaderamountain temple
Mizukami takes bronze forms to combine
‘hand’ 920 orig. ‘hand’, with 143 ‘stop’,
latter acting as phonetic with associated sense
‘control’; Katō broadly agrees. Ogawa identifies
same two elements as ‘keep in the hand’. Instead
of , Tōdō takes top element as (NJK;
‘move, go’, see 151). Note some OBI and bronze
forms of and are very similar (might
originally have depicted foot, like ); Karlgren
asserts ‘is mostly used in the bone and the
bronze inscriptions as loan for the homophonous
in its various meanings’ (Schuessler
has these two graphs as near-homophones,
not complete homophones in Late Han times).
Originally meaning ‘control with hand’, in Han
times acquired the sense of ‘place to control/
administer’, and also – after transmission of
Buddhism to China c.1 st century A.D. – the more
specialized sense of ‘Buddhist temple’. By clerical
script stage upper element had changed
to . MS1995:v1:392-3,18-19; KJ1970:480;
OT1968:285; BK1957:253-4; AS2007:613;
SK1984:230. Take as 64 ‘ground’ and 920
‘hand’.
Mnemonic: HAND OFFERS GROUND TO
TEMPLE
82 The 160 Second Grade Characters