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1546 L1 審 SHIN judge, investigate 15 strokes SHINGIdeliberation FUSHINdoubt SHINPANjudgment, umpiring Seal ( 宷 ) . Entry heading in Shuowen has 宷 , comprising 30 ‘roof, building’ over 215 (orig open hand holding grain or similar > ‘divide up, distinguish’), thus ‘clarify matters deep inside a house’ (Katō). Katō considers here carries the nuance ‘deep inside’ through a word-family connection with 342 ‘deep’, and 1547 震 SHIN, furuu/eru shake, tremble L2 15 strokes JISHINearthquake miburuitrembling body furuegoetrembling voice 1548 薪 SHIN, takigi, maki firewood, kindling L1 16 strokes SHINTANfuel takigigoyawoodshed makiwariwoodchopping Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 165 (‘new’) in its orig meaning ‘chop tree (for this is supported by Schuessler, who also notes a possible link. Ogawa takes the meaning as ‘separate and clarify matters covered over’. Gu interprets the graph (both 宷 and ) as meaning ‘inquire into/examine closely inside a room’. The same Shuowen entry also notes the form with 215 (‘number; guard’) substituted for , i.e. . Adoption of as the lower element as an alternative to 宷 at the seal stage may reflect influence of an earlier variant form. DJ2009:v1:95; MS1995:v2:1352-4; KJ1970:566; AS2007:458; OT1968:284; GY2008:727-8. Mnemonic: INVESTIGATE NUMBERS UNDER COVER OF ROOF, THEN JUDGE Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 3 ‘rain’ (sometimes more broadly, ‘sky, weather’), with 1531 (originally clamshell) as phonetic with associated sense ‘shake’, thus ‘weather that makes things shake’ (Mizukami says ‘thunder rumbles in heavy rainstorm’); sense then generalized to ‘shake, tremble’. MS1995:v2:1422-3; OT1968:1086; SS1984:477. Mnemonic: RAIN MAKES CLAM SHAKE AND TREMBLE?! firewood)’, with 53 ‘plant’ added to highlight this sense – and extended sense ‘firewood’ – when came to be used in loan usage for another word meaning ‘new’ (the two were homophonous in early Chinese). DJ2009:v1:82; KJ1970:575-6; OT1968:872; AS2007:538-9. Mnemonic: USE NEWLY CHOPPED PLANTS AS KINDLING 1549 刃 JIN, ha, yaiba blade, sword L1 3 strokes HAKUJINdrawn sword hamonobladed object RYŌbadouble blade OBI ; seal ; traditional (Kangxi zidian) 刃 / . One of a small number of characters of the ‘indicative symbol’ type in which stroke(s) added to a pictograph represent (a word of) different meaning, in this case, 198 ‘knife, sword’, plus to highlight ‘blade’. The form occurs early in Chinese calligraphic tradition (Northern Wei onwards). Note that in many Chinese characters means ‘knife’ rather than ‘sword’. Also note that the blade here is the inside edge, unlike the katana. QX2000:183; MS1995:v1:122-3; OT1968:110; FC1974:v1:201; KZ2001:237-8/3671; MR2007:305. Mnemonic: SWORD WITH MARKED BLADE The Remaining 1130 Characters 459

1550 L1 尽 JIN, tsukiru/kusu use up, exhaust 6 strokes JINRYOKUeffort(s) JINMIRAIfor ever kokorozukushikind efforts OBI ; seal ; traditional . The OBI form has 159 ‘writing brush, brush’ (itself originally [OBI] pictograph of hand holding brush) over 300 ‘bowl’. In one interpretation, is taken as phonetic with associated sense ‘empty’, giving ‘wipe inside of bowl clean’ (Katō; Karlgren is in agreement ). In his analysis, Katō also treats in this graph as incorporating what later came to be written separately as

1550<br />

L1<br />

尽<br />

JIN, tsukiru/kusu<br />

use up, exhaust<br />

6 strokes<br />

JINRYOKUeffort(s)<br />

JINMIRAIfor ever<br />

kokorozukushikind efforts<br />

OBI ; seal ; traditional . The OBI form<br />

has 159 ‘writing brush, brush’ (itself originally<br />

[OBI] pictograph of hand holding brush)<br />

over 300 ‘bowl’. In one interpretation, is<br />

taken as phonetic with associated sense ‘empty’,<br />

giving ‘wipe inside of bowl clean’ (Katō;<br />

Karlgren is in agreement ). In his analysis, Katō<br />

also treats in this graph as incorporating<br />

what later came to be written separately as

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