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1530
嘱
SHOKU
request, entrust
L1
13 strokes
ISHOKUcommission
SHOKUBŌexpectation
SHOKUTAKU commission
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has 22 ‘mouth, speak’, and /766
(‘belong; genus’) as phonetic with associated
sense taken either as i] ‘instruct verbally’
(Ogawa, Tōdō), or ii] ‘make something stick’
(Katō), in either case giving the overall meaning
‘instruct verbally, instruct’. OT1968:196;
TA1965:285; KJ1970:558.
Mnemonic: ENTRUSTED TO SPEAK ABOUT
WHAT BELONGS
1531
L1
辱
JOKU, hazukashimeru
insult, humiliate
10 strokes
BUJOKUinsult
KUTSUJOKUhumiliation
SETSUJOKUvindication
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 920
‘hand’ beneath ‘Dragon’ (fifth of the Twelve
Branches used in traditional Chinese culture
for purposes such as timekeeping). Note that
‘dragon’ is an early (OBI) loan use of , which
derives from a pictograph of a large clam
(bivalve mollusc); Katō considers the OBI and
bronze forms show clams with muscle tissue
outside the shell to enable movement.
represents a hand holding a clam shell sharpened
for cutting vegetation. This etymology is
clearly seen in the OBI form for 386 ‘farming’,
a graph which incorporates . ‘Shame,
humiliation’ is usually seen as a loan usage,
but it may reflect an extended meaning similar
to the English ‘cutting remark’. KJ1970:561-
2,948; MS1995:v2:1280-81; OT1968:288;
SS1984:466.
Mnemonic: HAND OUT HUMILIATING
INSULTS AS CUTTING AS A CLAM-SHELL
1532
L1
尻
shiri
buttocks, rear, (back)
end, tail
5 strokes
shirioshibacking, support
kawajiririver mouth
shippo*tail
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 256
‘corpse, slumped body’, sometimes – as here
– in the latter sense ‘(living) body’, and 13
(‘nine’) as phonetic with associated sense
‘hole, orifice’, giving ‘anus’ and by extension
terms such as ‘buttocks’, ‘rear’, ‘end’, ‘bottom’.
Over time, the meaning of ‘anus’ itself has
been virtually displaced by these extended
meanings, and the common term for ‘anus’
nowadays is shiri no ana (‘buttock hole’) or
the medical term (kōmon). KJ1970:457;
TA1965:225; OT1968:295.
Mnemonic: NINE SLUMPED BODIES HAVE
NINE PAIRS OF BUTTOCKS
1533
L2
伸
SHIN, nobiru/basu
stretch, extend
7 strokes
SHINSHUKUelasticity
TSUISHINpostscript
senobistretch on tiptoe
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists of
41 ‘person’, and 338 (‘say, expound’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘stretch, extend’,
giving ‘person grows’; meaning then generalized
to ‘stretch, extend’. KJ1970:574; TA1965:
754-6; OT1968:54; SS1984:468.
Mnemonic: PERSON EXTENSIVELY
STRETCHES OUT WHAT HE HAS TO SAY
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