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1526
拭
SHOKU, nuguu, fuku
wipe, sweep, polish
L1
9 strokes
tenuguihand towel/wipe
FUSSHOKUsweep away
fukikomu wipe, shine, polish
Late, post-Shuowen graph. Has34 ‘hand’,
and 311 (‘form, ceremony’) as phonetic
with associated sense ‘make clean’, thus ‘clean
with/by hand’, i.e. ‘wipe’. Some scholars take
as wipe using some object (Tōdō, Shirakawa).
OT1968:413; TA1965:74-80; SS1984:463.
Mnemonic: WIPE HANDS FOR THE CEREMONY
1527
殖
SHOKU, fueru/yasu
increase, enrich
L1
12 strokes
SEISHOKUprocreation
RISHOKUmoney making
fuedaka increment
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has ‘bone
fragment; die’ (see 1441), and 192 (‘direct,
upright’) as phonetic with associated sense
taken either as i] ‘adhere, be sticky’, thus ‘flesh
on corpse rots and goes mushy’ (Katō), or ii]
‘rot, decay’, (Ogawa). ‘Increase’ is seen as a
loan sense by Katō. Ogawa considers ‘increase’
derives from the graph having been used interchangeably
with 337 ‘plant’ at one stage
(both were homophones in Late Han), ‘increase’
being an extended sense from ‘plant’. Tōdō,
like Shirakawa, links these two graphs and the
underlying words. KJ1970:557; OT1968:544;
TA1965:89.
Mnemonic: INCREASED BARE BONES
DIRECTLY ENRICH GROUND
1528
飾
SHOKU, kazaru
decorate
L1
13 strokes
SŌSHOKUdecoration
kubikazari necklace
kazarimono decoration
Seal . Has 1232 ‘cloth’, and (CO; see
Note below) taken in one view as phonetic with
associated sense ‘wipe’, giving ‘wipe clean with
cloth’, and by extension ‘make nice, decorate’
(Ogawa, Mizukami). Mizukami lists a proposed
bronze form. Alternatively, is taken as ‘person
in front of food vessel’ (