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900
L1
就
12
SHŪ, JU, tsuku
take up, achieve,
regarding, reach
strokes
JŌJUaccomplishment
nitsuiteregarding, about
SHŪSHOKUgetting a job
Bronze ; seal . Has 110 ‘capital’ (orig.
tall building atop hill or mound), and NJK
(‘excel’ )as phonetic with associated sense ‘take
901
衆
SHŪ, SHU
multitude, mass
L1
12 strokes
KŌSHŪpublic
TAISHŪthe masses
GASSHŪKOKUUSA
OBI forms , ; bronze ; seal . OBI forms
have three people (may be taken to mean ‘many
people’) under an element corresponding in
shape in some occurrences to 66 ‘sun/day’,
while in others it appears to be ‘enclosure/
area’ 84. Gu takes the overall meaning as ‘many
people working under the sun’, while Ogawa
one’s place’ (Katō, Yamada), or ‘come together’
(Ogawa), in either case taken as meaning ‘live
on a high hill’. In ancient China the nobility lived
on elevated ground where possible, and those
of more humble origin lower down. ‘Proceed
to/reach’ may be seen as extended senses,
and ‘get/achieve’ a loan usage. KJ1970:512;
YK1976:253; MS1995:v1:404-5,402. Suggest
take as ‘crippled’ dog ( 19).
Mnemonic: TAKE UP ISSUE REGARDING
CRIPPLED DOGS IN THE CAPITAL
takes the top element as ‘area’, and takes the
graph to mean ‘many people assembled’. Katō
and Yamada take the top element as ‘eye’, and
assert that here it means ‘head’, giving ‘many
people’, but there seems limited basis for the
‘eye’ interpretation when the OBI forms are
borne in mind. Despite diversity of analysis, in
all cases the common core of meaning is ‘many
people’, the sense then being generalized to
‘many’. GY2008:298; OT1968:896; KJ1970:510;
YK1976:254. MS1995:v2:922-3. Suggest taking
lower half as ‘odd people’, and upper as ‘eye with lash’.
Mnemonic: ODD PEOPLE MASSED UNDER
WATCHFUL EYE WITH LASH
902
従
JŪ, shitagau
‘follow’, changed in bronze to () 85, also
follow, comply
meaning ‘go, walk’. Overall sense is ‘follow
L1
10 strokes
after’, and by extension ‘comply’. YK1976:256;
MS1995:v1:486-7; OT1968:350; KJ1970:516.
JŪGYŌINemployee
We suggest taking as its original meaning,
JŪSHA follower
namely a road, and the right-hand side as
shitagatteaccordingly
variant of 43 ‘correct’ (i.e. here, ‘more or less
OBI ; bronze ; seal ; traditional .
correct’) with as a variant of 70 ‘eight’.
OBI stage 131 ‘go, walk’ with (one
person following another – see 41) giving
Mnemonic: COMPLIANTLY FOLLOW EIGHT
ROADS MORE OR LESS CORRECTLY
903
L1
縦
JŪ, tate
vertical, selfish
16 strokes
JŪSENvertical line
HŌJŪself-indulgence
tategakivertical script
Seal ; late graph (post-Shuowen); traditional
form: . Has 29 ‘thread’, and 902 (‘follow’)
as phonetic with associated sense either
i] ‘loosen’, giving ‘loosen something tied with
thread’ (Yamada) or ‘extend vertically’ (Tōdō),
or ii] ‘stick out’, giving ‘threads which stick out
vertically’ (Ogawa). Yamada’s interpretation
results in ‘vertical’ as a loan usage (as also Katō),
while in other analyses it is a generalized sense.
The lesser meanings of ‘wayward’, ‘selfishness’
are extensions related to the idea of looseness
(Katō). YK1976:257; TA1965:301; OT1968:787;
KJ1985:488.
Mnemonic: THE THREADS TO FOLLOW ARE
THE VERTICAL ONES
The 181 Sixth Grade Characters 279