480531170

1004
L1
臨
RIN, nozomu
face, look out on,
verge, attend
18 strokes
RINJItemporary
RINKAIlittoral
RINSEKIattendance
Bronze ; seal . Has NJK ‘look down’, and
405 (‘goods’), typically taken as phonetic with
associated sense ‘water’s edge’, giving ‘look down
from cliff near water’s edge’, then generalized
to ‘look down’, and associated meanings such
as ‘verge on; attend’. Tōdō, however, rejects this
analysis on the basis that the early Chinese
sound value of makes it unlikely as a phonetic
in , and so interprets it as with , to give
‘look down (from a platform or similar) on merchandise’
(then presumably generalized to ‘look
down’, etc.). Given Schuessler’s reconstructed
sound values for early Chinese, this interpretation
has some merit, and is favored by Ogawa
too. YK1976:500-01; TA1965:807; OT1968:830;
KJ1970:132-3; TA1965:807; AS2007: 359,415.
Suggest taking as 543 ‘fixed eye’,