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1586
L1
斥
SEKI, shirizokeru
repel, reject
5 strokes
HAISEKIboycott
SEKKŌpatrol, scout, spy
SEKIRYOKUrepulsion
Seal . The original way of writing this graph
is generally taken as , which consists of
127 ‘building, house’, and 屰 675 (‘adverse’;
originally, showing person upside-down) as
phonetic with associated sense taken in one
view as ‘strike, repel’, giving ‘remove/clear
away a house/building’ (Ogawa). Alternatively,
taken as 1233 ‘ax’ with added as a
marker to indicate ‘cut, notch’, giving original
meaning ‘cut and split with ax’ (Tōdō). As Gu
points out, though, does appear to have
evolved through changes in shape from
through an intermediate stage such as 厈 , a
shape from which it was a relatively small step
to . Examples of 厈 can be found at the clerical
script stage. OT1968:450; TA1965:353-4;
GY2008:177; SK1984:357-8. Suggest taking the
short downstroke as indicating ‘down’.
Mnemonic: REPELLED BY AX COMING DOWN
1587
析
SEKI
divide, analyze
L1
8 strokes
BUNSEKIanalysis
KAISEKIanalysis
SEKISHUTSUeduction
OBI : seal . Consists of 73 ‘tree, wood’,
with 1233 ‘ax’, giving ‘cut/fell tree with ax’;
Mizukami takes to mean ‘cut up small’. Even if
it originally meant ‘fell a tree’, to serve a useful
purpose a tree needs to be cut up, so ‘divide up’
stands as an extended sense, and from there
a further extension to ‘analyze’. MR2007:339;
MS1995:v1:652-3; OT1968:494.
Mnemonic: ANALYSE TREE BY CHOPPING
AND DIVIDING WITH AN AX
1588
脊
SEKI, se
backbone, height
L1
10 strokes
SEKICHŪspinal column
SEKIZUIspinal cord
setakeheight, stature
Seal . Has /209 ‘flesh, meat; body’ under
, the latter element depicting the spine/
backbone and four vertebrae. ‘Height, stature’
appears to be Japanese-only usage. SS1984:
506; GY2008:1119; OT1968:821. Take as
‘person’ 41, body, and four vertebrae.
Mnemonic: PERSON’S BODY HEIGHT
COMPRISES MANY VERTEBRAE
1589
L1
隻
10
SEKI
one of pair, ship
counter
strokes
SEKISHUone arm
ISSEKIone ship/boat
ISSEKIGANsharp eye
OBI ; seal . Has 324 ‘short-tailed bird,
bird’, and 2003 ‘hand’, giving ‘catch a bird’.
‘One of a pair’ also evolved as a meaning for .
There is another graph ‘catch/have pair of
birds’ (traditional form of 1627 ‘pair, both’),
which stands in contrast to . is a later
graph (seal form onwards). The use of as
a counter for ships is perhaps best seen as a
loan usage. MS1995:v2:1406-7; GY2008:160;
SS1984:506.
Mnemonic: ONLY ONE BIRD IN THE
HAND – BETTER OFF COUNTING BOATS!
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