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1607
箋
SEN
paper, letter
L1
14 strokes
BINSENstationery
FUSENtag, label
YŌSENblank paper, form
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 58
‘bamboo’, and 545 (halberds; ‘fight, cut’)
as phonetic with associated sense ‘small,
shallow’, thus ‘(thin) bamboo strips (for
writing)’ (Ogawa); in broadly similar fashion,
Shirakawa takes associated sense as ‘thin and
placed on top’, and suggests original meaning
may have been ‘title slip’ for a book cover.
Bamboo strips were important as material
for writing before invention of paper by the
Chinese (what Tsien terms ‘true paper’ was
invented in 105AD). OT1968:755; SS1984:524;
TT1962:131-37.
Mnemonic: WRITE LETTER TO PAPER ABOUT
TWO WOODEN HALBERDS
1608
L1
潜
SEN, hisomu, moguru
dive, lurk, hide
15 strokes
SENZAIlatency
SENSUIdiving
mogurikomu‘hole up’
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional .
Has 42 ‘water’, and (see Note below) as
phonetic with associated sense taken variously
as ‘sink’ (Katō), ‘insert’ (Ogawa, Gu), or ‘enter
confined space’ (Tōdō); despite differences,
shared associated sense here is ‘enter into’, reflected
in the overall meaning taken by these
scholars, i.e. ‘pass through/under’, with ‘lie
hidden’ as extended sense. Note: Shirakawa
interprets as two hairpins over prayer
receptacle to indicate secretly putting curse
on someone. TA1965:807-11; KJ1970:564-5;
OT1968:608; GY2008:1841; SS1984:525. Take
㚘 as two husbands 601, and ‘sun’ 66.
Mnemonic: TWO HUSBANDS DIVE INTO
SUNLIT WATERS
1609
遷
SEN, utsuru
shift, move, change
L1
15 strokes
HENSENchange
SEN’ENprocrastination
SENGEdeath of dignitary
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 85 ‘go,
move’, and 䙴 (see Note to 1597) as phonetic
with associated sense taken as i] ‘move to a
high place’, thus ‘climb high’ (Katō), or ii] ‘depart’,
thus ‘move’ (Ogawa). ‘Move’ is the generalized
sense. OT1968:1014; KJ1970:87. Suggest as
‘west’ 169, as ‘self’ 866 and as ‘big’ 56.
Mnemonic: MOVE ONESELF IN BIG SHIFT TO
WEST – QUITE A CHANGE
1610
L1
薦
16
SEN, susumeru, komo
recommend, offer,
straw mat(ting)
strokes
SUISENrecommendation
JISENself-recommendation
SENKOTSUsacrum
Bronze ; seal . Has 53 ‘plant, vegetation’,
and 廌 (originally, depiction of mythical
beast said to be similar to a stag) taken in one
interpretation as both semantic and phonetic,
meaning ‘fine vegetation which (such a) creature
would eat’. In this interpretation, ‘offer’ is
seen as a loan usage (Ogawa). Alternatively,
廌 is regarded as phonetic with an associated
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