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910
L3
除
JO, JI, nozoku
exclude, remove
10 strokes
JOKYOremoval
MENJOexemption
SŌJIcleaning
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has () 1907
‘hill, terraced slope, steps’, and 820 (‘excess’)
as phonetic, taken as with associated sense
either i] ‘order, arrange’, giving ‘well-arranged
earthen steps’ (Katō, Yamada), or ii] ‘building’,
taken on basis of Shuowen to give ‘palace
steps’ (Gu, Tōdō). YK1976:267-8; KJ1970:883;
GY2008:962; TA1965:339.
Mnemonic: SURPLUS TERRACES HAVE TO BE
REMOVED, EXCLUDING NONE
911
L3
将
10
SHŌ, masa
command,
about to
strokes
SHŌRAIfuture
SHŌGUNgeneralissimo
masa niabout to
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Bronze forms
show one or two hands, with () 209 ‘meat,
flesh’, with (originally, pictograph of a bed
– see 739) as phonetic with associated sense
‘raise up’, giving ‘offer up meat’. Seal form has as
above, but the ‘hand’ component is equivalent
912
L1
傷
13
SHŌ, kizu, itami/mu/
meru
wound, hurt
strokes
SHISHŌSHAcasualties
SHŌGAIinjury
kizutsukeruto wound
Seal
and
; late graph (Shuowen). Has 41’person’,
(seemingly a variant of 161 ‘sun rises’)
to 920 (‘hand’, ‘unit of measure’), with little if
any change of overall meaning, which is ‘offer
up meat’. ‘Lead, command’ is considered to be
either a loan usage (Katō, Yamada), or an extended
sense based on the person making the
offering being someone of status, hence ‘lead;
leader’. Also used in early Chinese as a convenient
loan for a grammatical function word
meaning ‘be about to’, then also in Japanese.
YK1976:271; KJ1970:582; AS2007:306. Suggest
taking as a table on its edge, and as reaching
hand.
Mnemonic: TWO HANDS ABOUT TO PUT
TABLE ON EDGE, UNDER COMMAND
as phonetic with associated sense ‘wound,
injure’, giving ‘person suffers wound’, then generalized
to ‘wound, injure’. Gu follows Shuowen
in regarding as an abbreviation for with
145 ‘arrow’ as left-hand determinative, meaning
‘arrow wound’. OT1968:78 YK1976:276;
KJ1970:542-3; GY2008:283. Take both and