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tower above; sign’) was added as phonetic
with associated sense taken as i] ‘straight,
hit mark decisively’, giving ‘clearly/carefully
listen to ’(Mizukami, Tōdō), or ‘question,
inquire’, thus ‘listen and make correct judgement’
(Ogawa); by extension, ‘comply’. As Qiu
observes, both and 922 ‘sage’ were
generally identical in shape at the OBI stage,
at least in some occurrences corresponding
to (though some occurrences of what
later evolved as 922 have 41 ‘person’
as additional element), and the one graph at
that stage represented two different words of
similar pronunciation, meaning ‘listen to’ and
‘sage’. For ‘sage’ (later ), at seal stage the
extra element was changed to