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1730<br />

珍<br />

CHIN, mezurashii gives proposed OBI equivalents which have <br />

rare, curious<br />

10 ‘shell currency’ together with an enclosing<br />

L2<br />

9 strokes<br />

element of uncertain meaning. Note: OBI and<br />

bronze occurrences of 㐱 have 41 ‘person’<br />

CHINKInovel, rare<br />

combined with (see 115, 517), an element<br />

CHINPINrare item, curio<br />

which is interpreted not in its typical determinative<br />

CHINPONrare book<br />

meaning ‘decorative feathers/features’<br />

but as a shape representing thick human<br />

hair. Note also that as a determinative jade<br />

almost always drops its dot. OT1968:655;<br />

MS1995:v2:854-5; GY2008:178-9; BK1957:123-<br />

4. We suggest taking top right as ‘person’ <br />

41, and as scratches.<br />

Seal . Has 15 ‘jade, precious stone, jewel’,<br />

and 㐱 (‘thick hair’; see note below) as phonetic<br />

with associated sense taken either as i]<br />

‘be full/complete, replenish’, giving ‘fine jade/<br />

precious stone without blemish’ (Ogawa), or<br />

ii] ‘free from impurity’, giving ‘fine jade/precious<br />

stone of solid (pure) colour’ (noted in<br />

Mizukami together with i] above). Mizukami<br />

Mnemonic: PERSON HAS CURIOUS AND RARE<br />

JEWEL WITH THREE SCRATCHES<br />

1731<br />

朕<br />

CHIN<br />

(imperial) We<br />

L1<br />

10 strokes<br />

CHINwe<br />

CHIN noOur<br />

CHINTOKU Our Virtue<br />

OBI forms , ; seal (

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