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1289
遣
KEN, tsukau, yaru
send, use, do, give
L1
13 strokes
HAKENdispatch
kozukaipocket money
yarinaosure-do
Seal . Has 85 ‘go, move’, and (see Note
below) as phonetic with associated sense taken
as i] ‘continue on’ (though possibly with a semantic
function also), giving ‘person continues
walking after another’, i.e. ‘follow’ (Katō), or ii]
‘take just one part of something accumulated,
and send/move somewhere else’ (Tōdō). ‘Send
away, dispatch’ may be seen as an extended
sense. The meaning ‘give’ is also probably an
extended sense, deriving from the offering of
items in funerary ritual (Schuessler). Ogawa
notes ‘use’ as a Japanese-only usage, and this
may be based on having been employed
to represent the Japanese verb tsukawasu
meaning ‘send, dispatch’, and then being
the head), serving in one view (Gu) as phonetic;
other scholars, however, take not just
but the whole complex element as the
phonetic, with associated sense ‘raise up high’,
likewise giving the meaning ‘offer meat of
dog as sacrifice’. Subsequently, the sense was
generalized to ‘offer up, present’. The modern
form has ‘south’ 208 as the left-hand
component. GY2008:1555; MS1995:v2:846-7;
KJ1970:373; OT1968:645.
Mnemonic: SOUTHERN DOG IS DEDICATED
Or: DEDICATED SOUTHERN DOG IS GIVEN
AS PRESENT
borrowed for the separate but homophonous
honorific form tsukawasu meaning ‘use’ (strictly
speaking, the Old Japanese equivalents of
these two verbs, but the principle involved still
holds). Similarly, the meaning ‘do’ associated
with may derive from the fact that the verb
yaru in Old Japanese meant ‘send, dispatch’, but
later there evolved yaru meaning ‘do’, as in the
modern language. Note: is interpreted in
one analysis as depicting hands putting a bow
into a grave pit, as part of a funerary ritual (Gu),
or alternatively as depicting accumulated possessions
piled up (Tōdō) / clods of earth made
round with the hands into a mound (Katō).
KJ1970:382-3; MS1995:v2:1302-4; AS2007:425;
TA1965:606; JD1967:459; OT1968:1011. As with
847, we suggest taking upper right hand
part as ‘odd insect’ ( 60 ‘insect’), and suggest
lower right as buttocks.
Mnemonic: DO SEND ME THAT ODD INSECT
WITH MOVING BUTTOCKS
1290
L2
賢
KEN, kashikoi
wise
16 strokes
KENJAa sage
KENMEIwisdom
kashikoidatefeigned wisdom
Bronze ; seal . Has 10 ‘shell, shell currency,
valuables’, and 臤 1237 ‘hard’ (q.v. for
etymology), taken in one analysis as semantic
and phonetic, to give original meaning
‘hard, good quality shell’ (Ogawa, Shirakawa).
Alternatively, 臤 is taken as phonetic with as-
sociated sense ‘numerous’, thus ‘give numerous/plentiful
valuables to others’ (Katō, Gu;
the latter interpretation, according to Katō, is
based on a passage attributed to Zhuangzi).
The meaning ‘wisdom/wise’ comes from a
change from material wealth to wealth of
knowledge (Katō). OT1968:961; SS1984;264;
KJ1970:133-4; GY2008:611. Take 臤 as its
components 2003 ‘hand’ and staring eye
543 ‘retainer’.
Mnemonic: WISE RETAINER STARES HARD AT
SHELL-MONEY IN HAND
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