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L3
比
HI, kuraberu
compare, ratio
4 strokes
HIREIproportion
HIKAKUcomparison
kurabemonopeerless
no nai
OBI ; seal . Two people in line. Original
meaning ‘lined up’ was extended based on
comparing two similar entities. Originally, early
Chinese words for ‘lined up’ and ‘follow’ were
both represented in written form by one person
next to another, and as Mizukami points out,
OBI for these two words were written sometimes
facing right, sometimes left; later the
convention became established to write facing
right for this graph , and ‘follow’ (block script
[the original way of writing – see 902])
facing left. YK1976:420; MS1995:v1:720-22,42-3;
KJ1970:796.
Mnemonic: COMPARE TWO PERSONS
SITTING NEXT TO EACH OTHER
793
肥
HI, koeru/yasu
fatten, enrich
L1
8 strokes
HIRYŌfertilizer
HIMANcorpulence
koetsuchirich soil
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has / 209
‘flesh, meat’, and a right-hand element which
in the seal form corresponds to ‘kneeling
person’ (determinative 26) though Katō and
Yamada take here as ‘hunchback’. In this graph
162 serves as phonetic with associated sense
‘one thing added on top of another’, to give
‘fleshy’; by extension, ‘become fat/enriched’. It
is in Tōdō’s word-family ‘fat, thick’. YK1976:422;
KJ1970:798; TA1965:730-32. We suggest taking
the right-hand element as ‘bending body’
162.
Mnemonic: FLESHY BENDING BODY HAS
BEEN FATTENED
794
非
HI
not, un-, fault
L3
8 strokes
HININ‘non-person’ (hist.)
HIGŌRITEKIirrational
HIKŌmisdemeanor
795
備
BI, sonaeru/waru
equip, prepare
L3
12 strokes
SETSUBIfacilities
JUNBIpreparation
sonaetsukefixtures/fittings
Bronze ; seal . Has 41 ‘person’, and CO
(‘quiver [with arrows]’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘put to one side temporarily’, to give
Bronze ; seal . Depicts outstretched wings
of a bird in flight, but as Katō suggests, probably
just the wings themselves (an approximate
parallel to this would be 108 ‘cow’, where just
the head is depicted to represent the whole
animal). Outstretched wings were then used to
convey the meaning ‘mutually opposed’, and by
extension negative senses such as ‘not’, ‘fault’.
YK1976:422-3; MS1995:v2:1430-31; KJ1970:797.
Mnemonic: WINGS UNFOLD – SURELY NOT A
FAULT!?
‘person who tries to keep something intact (for
future use)’. Subsequently generalized to ‘keep
intact’. The basic meaning relates to ‘preparation’.
YK1976:425; MS1995:v1:78-9; KJ1970:805.
We suggest taking the graph as 41 ‘person’,
53 ‘grass’, 235 ‘use’, and as a variant roof
of big building (see 127).
Mnemonic: PERSON EQUIPS BUILDING WITH
ROOF USING PREPARED GRASS
250 The 185 Fifth Grade Characters