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1668
逮
TAI
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 85 ‘move,
chase, seize
go’, and CO ‘catch up with, reach’ (see Note
L1
11 strokes
below) as semantic and phonetic, giving
‘reach, extend to, arrive’. Note: bronze forms of
TAIHOarrest
have 2003 ‘hand’ reaching a tail (represented
TAIHOSHAcaptor
TAIHOJŌarrest warrant
by a tail-like shape, taken as an abbrev
of what later was to be written as 1888 ‘tail’.
MS1995:v2:1404-5,v1:406-08; OT1968:1004;
TA1965:748-9. Take as 肀 hand seizing
target, 氺 as (sweat) droplets.
Mnemonic: MOVE IN THE CHASE, SEIZE
TARGET BUT GET SWEATY HANDS
1669
替
TAI, kaeru/waru
exchange, swap
L2
12 strokes
DAITAIsubstitution
RYŌgaemoney changing
torikaeswapping
Seal form A . A graph made difficult to analyse
by the fact that while Shuowen has seal
form A as the entry heading, it also goes on to
give two other alternative forms; the meaning
given in Shuowen is ‘one side goes down’.
Seal form A itself consists of (traditional
form of 977 ‘line up’; the top part of is in
error for ) over an element/graph which is
considered to be one which is a homograph
with ‘white’, i.e. a different graph having the
same shape as 69 ’white’. The seal element/
graph concerned, corresponding to the lower
part of , namely , ‘is of uncertain meaning.
1670
滞
TAI, todokōru
stop, stagnate
L1
13 strokes
TAIZAIsojourn, stay
TEITAIstagnation
TAINŌnon-payment
Greater clarity, albeit provisional, is found in
one of these (let us call it ‘form B’) in Shuowen
which has 1048 ‘speak’ instead of ; form B
is taken in one view as consisting of ‘speak’,
and as phonetic with associated meaning
‘stop, desist’, giving ‘say “stop/desist” ’, and
by extension ‘change’ (Ogawa). The third seal
form (‘form C’) in Shuowen has beneath
(CO, ‘advance’); this may just have evolved as
a popular variant, as is suggested in the 17 th
century Zhengzitong. Unsurprisingly, the majority
of commentators omit treatment of this
challenging graph. MS1995:v2:896-7,980-82;
DJ2009:v3:841,v2:696; OT1968:479;
ZZ1671:v1:551-2. We suggest taking the upper
part as two ‘males/husbands’ 601, and
as ‘day’ 66.
Mnemonic: ONE DAY, ONE HUSBAND/MALE
WILL BE SWAPPED FOR ANOTHER
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
. Has42 ‘water’, and 566 (traditional
form of ‘belt, obi; wear’) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘stop, stagnate’ (Gu says
‘become firm’), giving ‘water stands still’; later
generalized in meaning to ‘stop, stagnate’.
OT1968:601; KJ1970:715; GY2008:494.
Mnemonic: WATER ON BELT WILL STAGNATE
Or: USE BELT TO STOP WATER STAGNATING
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