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339
L3
身
SHIN, mi
body
7 strokes
SHINTAI body
JISHIN oneself
miBUN status
The OBI and some bronze forms depict
a pregnant woman; other bronze forms
340
神
SHIN, JIN, kami
a god, spirit, deity
L3
9 strokes
SEISHIN spirit
SHINPU priest
megami goddess
341
真
SHIN, ma
truth, essence
L4
10 strokes
SHINJITSU truth
SHASHIN photograph
masshiro* pure white
OBI ; bronze ; seal ; traditional .
Katō and Yamada feel there are no OBI or
bronze forms, so on basis of later seal form
they provisionally see it as ‘inverted person’
匕 258 with inverted 155 ‘head, neck’, with
meaning ‘heavy fall’/‘upside-down’; with ‘true’
a loan usage. Mizukami, though, lists the much
earlier OBI form, and two possible analyses: i]
have this with 49 (‘thousand’), regarded
as phonetic with associated sense ‘be pregnant’.
The modern reference to ‘body’ can be
seen as an extended generalised meaning.
MS1995:v2:1264-6; KJ1970:563; YK1976:285-6.
We suggest taking the graph as a whole as a
stylized pictograph.
Mnemonic: PREGNANT WOMAN WALKS WITH
SWOLLEN BODY
Bronze forms , . First depicts lightning (see
338 ‘say’). Second more common, comprising
i] lightning component, with ii] 723 as
semantic (showing table/altar, by extension
‘deity’), to give meanings ‘thunder’ or ‘thunder
deity’, then just ‘deity’. i] here is in Tōdō’s wordfamily
‘extend, stretch’; Mizukami and Katō take
as thunder and lightning. MS1995:v2:944-5;
KJ1970:575; YK1976:287.
Mnemonic: THUNDER GOD SAYS SOMETHING
SPIRITED AT THE ALTAR
匕 ‘person fallen upside down’ (distinguish from
32 ‘seven’) with , with sense ‘turn upside
down’ (original way of writing NJK ‘summit’,
‘fall over’); ii] ‘spoon’ with , 3-legged cauldron’,
with sense ‘fill up container’ (original way
of writing NJK ‘obstruct; fill, fall’); Tōdō also
includes in word-family meaning ‘be filled right
up’. Again, ‘true’ is a loan usage. Gu also seems
to support taking top element in OBI as ‘person’.
KJ1970:212; YK1976:288; MS1995:v2:918-20,
v1:154-5, v2:1516-8; TA1965:745. We suggest
taking as 284 ‘equipment’ and 35 ‘ten’.
Mnemonic: THE TRUTH IS, THE EQUIPMENT IS
IN TEN PIECES
342
深
SHIN, fukai/meru
deep, deepen
L3
11 strokes
SHIN’EN profundity
SHINKAI deep sea
fukairi going deeply
Bronze . ‘Water’ 42, and 穼 or 罙 as
phonetic, a river name; loan usage for ‘deep’.
MS1995:v2:760-61; KJ1970:565-6; YK1976:289.
Take 73 ‘tree’ and variant 860 ‘hole’.
Mnemonic: DEEP WATERHOLE NEAR TREE
128 The 200 Third Grade Characters