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1569
崇
SŪ, agameru
lofty, noble, revere
L1
11 strokes
SŪHAIworship
SŪKŌ nasublime, lofty
SŪKEIreverence
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 26
‘mountain’, and 899 (‘religion’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken in one view as
‘come together, gather’ or ‘pile up’, giving
‘mountains come together and pile up’ (Katō).
Alternatively, here is taken by Ogawa as
meaning ‘admired’, giving ‘most admired high
mountain’. Either way, by extension ‘look up
high to, revere’. KJ1970:644; OT1968:305;
AS2007:363.
Mnemonic: RELIGIOUSLY REVERE LOFTY
MOUNTAIN
1570
据
sueru/waru, KYO
set, (set in) place, work
L1
11 strokes
sueokuleave as is
misuerugaze, stare
KIKKYOhard work
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists of
/ 64 ‘hand’, with 678 (‘reside, be’) as
phonetic with associated sense taken either
as i] ‘bent’, giving ‘hand shrinks/becomes
stiff’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘injury’, to give – in similar
vein – ‘hand injury’ (Shirakawa) (Gu says ‘hand
disease’). By contrast, Katō sees the main
meaning (in Japanese only) as ‘hands being
busy in a work context’, leading to a variety
of extended meanings, such as ‘place down’,
‘set’, and ‘work’. In all cases, hands and their
activities are core. OT1968:417; SS1984:181;
GY2008:1224; KJ1985:263.
Mnemonic: HAND IS IN SET PLACE
1571
杉
sugi
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 73 ‘tree,
cedar, cryptomeria wood’, and 115 (‘writing brush hairs’) as
L1
7 strokes
phonetic with associated sense taken as
‘needle’, giving ‘tree with needle-like leaves’,
sugiayaherringbone
and hence ‘cedar’ (Ogawa). Tōdō takes the
sugigakicedar hedge
associated sense as ‘many (needle-like leaves)
suginamiki cedar avenue
gathered together’, and so ‘cedar’, but this
interpretation seems to be more speculative.
OT1968:490; TA1965:811-14.
Mnemonic: CEDAR IS TREE WITH HAIR-LIKE
LEAVES
1572
裾
suso, KYO
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has /
skirt, hem, cuff
444 ‘garment’, and 678 (‘be, reside’) as phonetic
with associated sense taken in one view
L1
13 strokes
as ‘cover what is beneath’, giving ‘(part of)
yamasusofoot of mountain
garment which covers from outside’ (Tōdō);
susoMOYŌdesign on skirt
as a hem or cuff presumably involves folding
susoura hem lining
the edge of fabric on the outside and fixing
it onto the underside. This analysis therefore
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