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599
L3
標
HYŌ , shirushi
sign(post), mark
15 strokes
HYŌJUNstandard
RITEIHYŌmilestone
HYŌSHIKIsignal
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 73 ‘tree,
wood’, and 598 qv as phonetic with associated
sense typically taken as ‘topmost tree branches;
twigs’, to give ‘slender treetop branches, tips
600
不
FU, BU
not, un-, dis-
L4
4 strokes
FUMEIunclear
FUHEIcomplaint
BUKIMIweird
OBI ; seal . Originally, a pictograph of a calyx
(protective layer around the base of a flower
601
夫
FU, FŪ, otto
husband, man
L3
4 strokes
NINPUlaborer
KATŌ FUJINMrs Katō
FŪFUmarried couple
OBI ; seal . Shows an adult male (on
basis of usage in OBI texts, Katō considers
602
付
FU, tsuku/keru
attach, apply
L3
5 strokes
FUCHAKUadhesion
tsukiauto associate
nazukeruto name
Bronze ; seal . Has 41 ‘person’, and
in most bronze forms the equivalent of
603
L3
府
8
FU
government center,
urban prefecture
strokes
SEIFUgovernment
FUKEN prefectures
KYŌTO-FUKyōto Pref.
Seal . Has 127 ’roof, building’, and 602
(‘attach’) as phonetic with associated sense ‘collect,
gather’, to give ‘building where things are
of treetops’ (Katō, Yamada, Ogawa). Yamada
takes ‘sign, mark’ as a loan usage, but Tōdō
treats as an extended use, meaning a signboard
placed high up, as does Shirakawa. KJ1970:846-
7; YK1976:428-9; OT1968:524; TA1965:275-7;
SS1984:727. As in 598, we suggest taking
169 ‘west’ plus 723 ‘show’, not forgetting
‘tree’.
Mnemonic: THERE’S A SIGNPOST BY THAT
TREE, SHOWING WEST
bud), but adopted at a very early period (OBI)
as a loan for a grammatical function word for
‘not’, and this became the predominant usage.
MS1995:v1:8-9; KJ1970:824; YK1976:430-31.
Suggest taking as one stroke, with three
down-strokes.
Mnemonic: STRIKE ONCE, THEN THRICE
MORE FOR EMPHATIC ‘NO’
originally to be a big male). The top horizontal
stroke represents a hairpin, a sign that the
male had reached adulthood; ‘husband’ is an
extended sense. MS1995:v1:296-7; KJ1970:813;
YK1976:431. Suggest basing mnemonic on
56 ‘big’.
Mnemonic: HUSBAND IS A BIG MAN WITH A
PIN THROUGH HIS HEAD!?
2003 (‘hand’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘attach’, to give ‘put a hand on someone
from behind’. In the seal stage, 920 ‘hand’,
became standard. ‘Give, transfer’, as a type of
movement from one person to another, is an
extended sense. MS1995:v1:46-7; KJ1970:822-3;
YK1976:432.
Mnemonic: PERSON HAS A HAND ATTACHED
gathered together’, meaning a storehouse. Later,
this took on the more restricted sense of a building
to store documents and the like, and so ‘government
office’. By further extension, came to
mean an administrative area under government
control such as an urban prefecture or the seat
of government. KJ1970:823; MS1995:v1:452-3;
YK1976:432-3; OT1968:328.
Mnemonic: LARGE BUILDING ATTACHED TO
GOVT CENTER
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