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1578<br />

L1<br />

斉<br />

SEI, hitoshii<br />

equal, similar<br />

8 strokes<br />

ISSEIall together<br />

SEIITSUequality<br />

SEISHŌ singing in unison<br />

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

plants standing together with ears of grain, to<br />

give ‘make a set, be equal’ as extended senses.<br />

Bronze equivalents vary, and some are more<br />

elaborate in shape, resulting in a slightly different<br />

seal form. Some clerical script occurrences<br />

show that the intricate-looking middle<br />

part of the block script is a regularization in<br />

shape of the three ears of grain seen in seal<br />

form and earlier. SK1984:816; OT1968:1171;<br />

MS1995:v2:1524-5; TA1965:770-72. Suggest <br />

as ‘text’ 72 and as weird ‘moon’ 18.<br />

Mnemonic: TEXTS ABOUT WEIRD MOON ARE<br />

ALL VERY SIMILAR<br />

1579<br />

牲<br />

SEI<br />

sacrifice<br />

L1<br />

9 strokes<br />

GISEITEKIself-sacrificing<br />

GISEISHAvictim<br />

ikenie* live sacrifice<br />

OBI ; bronze seal . OBI form has as<br />

determinative not 108 ‘ox, cow’ but 426<br />

‘sheep’, plus 44 ‘live, birth’, taken in one<br />

view as phonetic with associated sense ‘pure’,<br />

thus ‘sheep cleansed for sacrifice’ (Mizukami);<br />

Tōdō, on the other hand, takes as semantic<br />

in function, meaning ‘live’, which when<br />

combined with as determinative (bronze<br />

forms onwards) gives ‘live bull for sacrifice’.<br />

Gu and Ogawa treat as both semantic and<br />

phonetic, thus ‘live bull cleansed/prepared for<br />

sacrifice’. ‘Sacrifice’, therefore, is the generalized<br />

meaning. MS1995:v2:832-4; TA1965:492;<br />

GY2008:871; OT1968:637.<br />

Mnemonic: SACRIFICE OF LIVE COW<br />

1580<br />

凄<br />

SEI, sugoi/mu, susamajii Very late graph (Yupian). Has 401 ‘ice’ and<br />

horrible, amazing, 708 (‘wife’) as phonetic with associated<br />

L1<br />

fantastic<br />

sense ‘cold’, thus original meaning ‘cold ice’.<br />

10 strokes<br />

Meanings such as ‘terrible, terrific’ and ‘horrible’<br />

are perhaps loan usages. Note that sugoi,<br />

monosugoiterrific<br />

like the English ‘terrific’ and the French<br />

SEISAN nagruesome<br />

‘terrible’, can express amazement, including<br />

sugoMONKU threats<br />

in a positive sense, such as ‘great, fantastic’.<br />

SS1984:497; AS2007:419.<br />

Mnemonic: ICY WIFE IS AMAZINGLY<br />

HORRIBLE, YET FANTASTIC!<br />

1581<br />

逝<br />

SEI, yuku, iku<br />

die, pass away<br />

L1<br />

10 strokes<br />

SEIKYOdeath<br />

KYŪSEIsudden death<br />

CHŌSEIdeath<br />

Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 85 ‘move’,<br />

and 551 (‘break’) as phonetic with associated<br />

sense ‘remove’ > ‘remove by going’ > ‘pass away,<br />

die’. GY2008:1027; AS2007:183.<br />

Mnemonic: MOVEMENT BREAKS DOWN<br />

THROUGH DEATH<br />

The Remaining 1130 Characters 469

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