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appears to already provide the meaning
‘hem, cuff’, though Tōdō takes this as a later,
restricted meaning. In support of taking ‘hem,
cuff’ as a later sense, on the other hand, is
the Shuowen entry for , which defines it as
‘front part of a garment’. In line with this, the
treatment by Gu also favors taking ‘front part
of a garment’ as the original meaning, and
several other meanings such as ‘back of a garment’
as extended senses. In Chinese only it
can have a meaning of ‘robe’, which presumably
could also be worn by males, whereas
in Japan it is very much associated with
females. Nor does the Chinese appear to encompass
the extended concept of the ‘hem’
of a mountain. DJ2009:v2:677; TA1965:385;
GY2008:1668. As one mnemonic we suggest
taking as 121 ‘old’ and 256 ‘corpse’.
Mnemonic: AN OLD CORPSE IS STILL
CLOTHED WITH A SKIRT
Or: WHERE I RESIDE, WE WEAR CLOTHES
FROM SKIRT TO CUFF
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L1
瀬
se
shallows, rapids
19 strokes
asaseshallows
setostrait, channel
setomono porcelain
Seal ; traditional . This graph consists
of / 42 water’, and (traditional form
of 2067 ‘request, rely’) as phonetic with
associated sense taken either as i] ‘push
forward/affect violently’, giving ‘violent rapid
current’ (Katō, Tōdō), or ii] ‘rub’, giving ‘strong
current which rushes over rocks’ (Ogawa). In
early China it was also applied to the name
of a specific river in Kuangxi. KJ1970:890-91;
TA1965:551; OT1968:613. For the middle and
right-hand elements we suggest taking as
561 ‘parcel’ and 103 ‘head’.
Mnemonic: PUT PARCEL ON YOUR HEAD
WHEN CROSSING SHALLOWS
Or: RELY ON WATER HAVING SHALLOWS
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是
ZE, kore
proper, this
L1
9 strokes
ZESEIcorrection
korerathese
ZEHIby all means; right and wrong
Bronze ; seal . Shuowen interprets
this graph as consisting of 66 ‘sun, day’
over 43 ‘correct’, but the bronze forms
are supportive of a different interpretation,
one which takes the upper element
as ‘ladle, spoon’; is considered to be the
original way of writing ‘ladle, spoon’ (CO).
The shape of the lower element in bronze
exhibits some variation, in several cases
rather resembling 143 ‘stop’, but another
occurrence suggests it probably represents
a triple hook for hanging utensils such as ladles
on (Yamada). At the clerical script stage
we find one or two examples wherein the
lower element , which stands as the lower
element in the seal form of , is written with
what at that stage was the similar-shaped
‘leg, foot’ (see Note below), which then
featured increasingly in block script. Senses
such as ‘correct; this’ are loan uses. Note: a
quite widely-held view is that , , and
54 (‘leg’) were originally one and the same
graph (Mizukami, Katō, Yamada). The OBI
and bronze shapes do provide some support
for this view, more particularly in the case of
and . At the seal stage, the similarity in
shape between and is close enough to
mean confusion between the two was likely
to occur at times. YK1976:296-7; KJ1970:444;
MS1995:v1:702-3,v2:884-6,1260-62; SK1984:
370-71; FC1974:v1:1046-7; DJ2009:v1:167,176.
Suggest taking upper element as ‘sun’ and
lower element as ‘not quite correct’, being
rather than .
Mnemonic: SUN IS NOT QUITE
CORRECT – THIS SHOULD BE PROPER
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