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1627
双
SŌ, futapair,
both
L2
4 strokes
SŌHŌboth sides
MUSŌ nomatchless
futagotwins
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has 324 ‘short-tailed bird, bird’ duplicated
over 2003 ‘hand’, giving ‘two birds
caught in the hand’, and by extension ‘two, a
pair’. TA1965:372; GY2008:125; OT1968:152.
Mnemonic: ‘PAIR OF HANDS’ MEANS BOTH
HANDS
1628
L1
壮
6
SŌ
manly, strong, grand,
fertile
strokes
SŌDAIgrandeur
KYŌSŌrobustness
SŌSHAman in prime
Bronze ; seal ; traditional . Has 521
‘adult male/samurai’ (or possibly ‘phallus’), and
/ 1488 (‘bed’) with associated sense ‘big’,
giving ‘big man’; by extension, ‘vigorous, flourishing’.
MS1995:v1:282-3,v2:824-5; KJ1970:434;
OT1968:228.
Mnemonic: SAMURAI IS MANLY IN BED
1629
L1
荘
9
SŌ, SHŌ
solemn, majestic,
estate, manor
strokes
SŌGONsolemnity, majesty
SHŌENestate, manor
BESSŌcountry retreat, villa
1630
捜
SŌ, sagasu
search
L2
10 strokes
SŌSAinvestigation
SŌSAKUsearch
sagashidasuseek out
Seal ; traditional ( ) . Seal form has
34 ‘hand’ and (NJK, ‘old man’), the latter
probably a variant of 叜 , a graph which occurs
in OBI onwards. The graph 叜 depicts a hand
holding fire (a flaming torch) inside a house,
giving the general overall meaning ‘search,
look for’; the meaning ‘old man’ is a later loan
usage of . At the seal stage, ‘hand’ was
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has 53 ‘plants, grass,’, and / 1628
‘vigorous, flourishing’ as semantic and
phonetic, thus ‘vegetation grows luxuriantly’
(Katō, Ogawa). Tōdō is in broad agreement,
but adds connotation ‘well-ordered’. By extension,
‘countryside’ and then ‘country estate’.
It is not clear whether ‘solemn, majestic’ is a
loan usage or extended sense. KJ1970:435;
OT1968:853; TA1965:378-80.
Mnemonic: SOLEMN SAMURAI BEDS DOWN
IN MAJESTIC GRASSY MANOR
added as a determinative, and this is taken
by Katō as signifying specifically ‘search by
hand’; this may simply be a case of a determinative
added redundantly to a graph already
complete in terms of its constituent elements.
OT1968:415; MS1995:v1:200-01; KJ1970:643.
Suggest hand(s) 2003, 338 (‘expound’) as
‘stick’ and ‘field’ 63, or alternatively take
as symbol of piercingand ‘sun’ 66.
Mnemonic: MULTIPLE HANDS SEARCH FOR
STICK IN FIELD
Or: MULTIPLE HANDS SEARCH FOR A WAY TO
PIERCE THE SUN
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