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elow); the associated sense of here is
taken either as i] ‘become loose’, thus giving
‘move slowly’ (Ogawa), or ii] ‘become blocked’,
giving ‘move slowly almost as if blocking the
way’ (noted in Mizukami). Alternatively, can
be taken as semantic, combining with to
give ‘move slowly like a rhinoceros’ (this view
noted in Mizukami also). Note: consists – at
the seal stage – of 108 ‘ox, cow’ (here, ‘ox/
cow-like beast’), combined with an upper part
which corresponds to 1888 ‘tail’, but one
must bear in mind that this does not reflect
the earlier composition of (noted above).
MS1995:v2:1308-9,v1:412-13; QX2000:254;
OT1968:1007,638; SS1984:588. We suggest
taking the right-hand elements as ‘sheep’
426 and ‘corpse’ 256.
Mnemonic: MOVE LIKE A SHEEP’S
CORPSE – SLOWLY!?
1699
L1
痴
CHI
foolish
13 strokes
HAKUCHIidiot
GUCHIidle complaint
CHIJŌinfatuation
Seal () ; is a late, post-Shuowen
equivalent. The seal form has 404 ‘sickbed,
sickness’ and 848 (‘doubt, suspect’)
as phonetic with associated sense taken as
i] ‘slow’, giving ‘illness of someone vague or
1700
L1
稚
CHI
young, immature
13 strokes
CHIGYOfish fry
CHISETSUnaivety
YŌCHIENkindergarten
is a late, post-Shuowen graph. The seal
form corresponds to 稺 , comprising 87
‘grain plant’, with 屖 (‘tarry, linger’, etc.) (later
replaced by 324 ‘short-tailed bird, bird’) as
phonetic; associated sense is ‘small’, giving
lacking intelligence’ (Katō), hence ‘foolish’, or
ii] ‘not advancing’, again giving ‘foolish’ (Ogawa).
The popular form replaces with
186 ‘know’ as semantic and phonetic, giving
‘illness related to thinking’. Unfortunately,
beyond saying that is a post-seal form it
is difficult to give an indication of the period
when it evolved. OT1968:680; KJ1970:691-2;
DJ2009:v2:613.
Mnemonic: I MAY BE FOOLISH, BUT I KNOW
I’M ILL
‘grain plant not big as yet’, and by extension
‘very young’ (Ogawa; see Note below). At the
clerical script stage, examples are found of
both 稺 and . Kangxi zidian has separate
entries for both graphs, but treats them as
essentially being the same. Note: Ogawa
says ‘rice plant not big as yet’ (mada ōkiku
naranai ine), but refers to grain plants in
general, not just rice plants. OT1968:734;
ZY2009:v3:875,878; SK1984:542,544.
Mnemonic: YOUNG BIRD AMONG IMMATURE
GRAIN PLANTS
1701
緻
CHI
fine, minute, exact
L1
16 strokes
KŌCHIelaborate
CHIMITSUfine, exact
SAICHIdetailed, minute
A late, post- Shuowen graph; added to a later
version of Shuowen by the 10 th century scholar
Xu Xuan. Consists of 29 ‘thread’, combined
with as phonetic with associated sense
‘fine, detailed’, giving ‘fine texture’, and then
‘fine, detailed’. The difference in shape between
the phonetic element in this graph –
originally 致 (with right-hand 夊 or [see
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