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1454
L1
羞
SHŪ, hajiru
be ashamed
11 strokes
SHŪCHIshame
SHŪCHISHINsense of shame
OBI ; seal . Has 426 ‘sheep, ram’ and
(NJK, zodiac sign ‘Ox’, originally [OBI] depicts a
hand with fingers bent: see 1711) as semantic
and phonetic meaning ‘grasp with the hand’,
giving ‘offer sheep in ritual’. ‘Shame’ is a loan
usage. Note that is now the same shape
as in the graph 508 ‘difference’, though
separate in evolution. MS1995:v2:1042-3,v1:6-7;
OT1968:799; MR2007:519.
Mnemonic: SHAME THAT ARIES THE RAM
AND TAURUS THE BULL ARE DIFFERENT
1455
愁
SHŪ, urei/eru
grief, sadness
L1
13 strokes
SHŪSHŌgrief
AISHŪsorrow
ureigao sad face
1456
酬
SHŪ
reward, reply, toast
L1
13 strokes
HŌSHŪreward
ŌSHŪresponse
KENSHŪ exchange sake cups
Seal forms , . Late graph (Shuowen). Main
heading in Shuowen has 醻 , and goes on to
give as alternative form in accompanying
text. Has NJK 318 ‘wine’ (originally, picto-
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 164
‘heart, feelings’, and 156 (‘autumn’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken either as i]
‘shrink’, giving ‘forlorn, downhearted’ (Tōdō) or
‘heart grows smaller through grief’ (Ogawa),
or ii] ‘grief’, giving ‘grieve, lament’ (Katō).
TA1965:211; OT1968:381; KJ1970:511.
Mnemonic: AUTUMNAL FEELINGS OF
SADNESS
graph of a wine jar), and (or 320, ‘province’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘give
out all round/without exception’, thus overall
meaning ‘(host) gives wine to all without exception’,
and by extension ‘give wine, exchange
drinking cups’; by further extension, ‘reward’
and ‘reply’. DJ2009:v3:1217; MS1995:v2:1352-3;
TA1965:183.
Mnemonic: BE REWARDED WITH A TOAST OF
PROVINCIAL WINE
1457
醜
SHŪ, minikui
ugly, shameful
L1
17 strokes
SHŪAKUfoulness
SHŪBUNscandal
minikusa ugliness
OBI ; seal . Has 1179 (‘devil, demon’;
originally depicted crouching figure wearing
death-mask; see 1179), and 318 (‘wine jar’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘bend over,
shrink’, thus ‘deceased person’s body bends
over and joins the ranks of the deities’. Later,
a semantic shift occurred, resulting in a new
sense ‘hunchback’, and by extension ‘ugly, bad;
hate’. MS1995:v2:1350-51; KJ1970:508-9.
Mnemonic: DEMON DRINK CAN LEAD TO
UGLY AND SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOR
Or: UGLY DEVIL WITH ALCOHOL
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