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1639
L1
葬
SŌ, hōmuru
bury
12 strokes
SŌSHIKIfuneral
SŌGIYAundertaker
SŌKAdirge
OBI ; seal . OBI forms show some variation,
but a quite common shape is vegetation
on top of a coffin with a corpse inside.
Other OBI forms occurring include a figure
with a stand or frame inside a coffin, and
sometimes the figure is omitted – probably an
abbreviation. In similar fashion, seal form has
1640
僧
SŌ
priest
L1
13 strokes
SŌINmonastery, temple
KŌSŌhigh priest
SŌSHOKUpriesthood
Seal ; late graph (later version of Shuowen);
traditional: . A graph devised upon
introduction of Buddhism to China to repre-
a corpse 302 on a mat (represented just as
a horizontal line), with vegetation () above
and below. In block script, the lower part of
the graph is modified to , a determinative
originally showing two hands facing upward
and hence meaning ‘offer up’; this change may
be based on misinterpretation of the lower
element ‘vegetation’, as and are of
similar shape in the seal forms. GY2008:1375;
MS1995:v2:1124-5. Take as ‘death’ 302, as
‘(long) grass’, and as ‘grass’ 53.
Mnemonic: DEATH FOLLOWED BY BURIAL
SURROUNDED BY GRASS
sent a new loanword for ‘Buddhist monk’ into
Chinese from Sanskrit, based on pronunciation
of first syllable of Sanskrit sangha ‘monk’.
Has 41 person, and 1635 (‘formerly’)
used just for its sound value. KJ1970:320;
SS1984:545; OT1968:79. As with 1635, take
as ‘away’ 70, 63 ‘field’, and 66 ‘day’.
Mnemonic: PERSON GOING AWAY DAILY
FROM FIELD IS A PRIEST
1641
遭
SŌ, au
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has ’move’
encounter, meet 85, with 1634 ‘official’ as semantic (in
L1
14 strokes
earlier sense ‘come together’ [Schuessler]) and
phonetic, giving ‘two parties come together
SŌGŪ encounter
unexpectedly’, i.e. ‘encounter’. OT1968:1012;
SŌNANaccident
TA1965:216-18; SS1984:547; AS2007:600.
SŌNANSHINGŌ SOS
Mnemonic: ENCOUNTER OFFICIAL ON THE
MOVE
1642
槽
SŌ
tank, tub, vat
L1
15 strokes
SUISŌwater tank
YOKUSŌbathtub
SHISŌ tooth socket
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 73
‘wood, tree’, and 1634 ‘official’. The latter
element is taken by one commentator as
semantic (in earlier sense ‘put together’) and
phonetic, giving ‘object put together with
wood’ (Gu). In Shuowen, is defined as ‘trough
for animal feed’; sense later extended to other
large wooden containers such as ‘barrel, vat’.
Ogawa treats the element here as phonetic,
though with associated sense unclear.
GY2008:1786-7; SS1984:548; OT1968:523.
Mnemonic: OFFICIAL HAS A WOODEN TUB
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