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person and check, examine’ (Ogawa). From
an early stage the concept of examination
and judgement was narrowed to health.
Note: 㐱 is comprised of the determinative
character (‘feathers’, ‘hairs’, see 115), in
Tōdō’s view, a pictographic representation of
long hair, beneath an element which in the
seal form is 41 ‘person’, modified in block
script to . Mizukami also agrees regarding
the seal stage, but suggests OBI and bronze
forms might instead depict a person urinating.
This is not particularly significant since
the dictionary or central meaning of 㐱 is
unrelated to its associated sense. Mnemonically,
can be taken properly as person,
or alternatively it could be taken as a cover.
MS1995:v1:44-6;TA1965:743-6; GY2008:514.
Mnemonic: WORDY DIAGNOSIS WHEN
PERSON HAS THREE HAIRS EXAMINED
Or: WORDY DIAGNOSIS IS TO COVER UP
THOSE THREE HAIRS
1544
寝
SHIN, neru/kasu
sleep, lie down
L2
13 strokes
SHINSHITSUbedroom
neirufall asleep
nekashimonounsold goods
Bronze ; seal forms include ; a late graph
(Shuowen); the traditional form has (1488,
and see below), not . Ancestral OBI and
bronze forms have 30 ‘roof, building’ over
‘broom’ 1536, some additionally with
2003 ‘hand’. Shuowen lists a small number
of different graphs which have been treated
as ancestral forms of , and the analyses of
commentators reflect this variation. Ogawa
gives a bronze form which he analyses as
‘roof, building’ over (‘ritually cleanse’)
as semantic and phonetic, giving ‘shrine/
sacred room free from defilement’, being a
place where in ancient times sick members
of the nobility slept; by extension, ‘bedroom’,
indicated by the later addition of
‘frame, bed’. Katō is in agreement in broad
terms, though not on as a later addition.
Mizukami treats one of the forms listed
by Katō, viz.