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1879
L2
彼
HI, kare, kano, ano
he, that, goal
8 strokes
kareSHIhe, boyfriend
kanoJOshe, girlfriend
HIGANequinox, goal
Seal . Has 131 ‘go; road’ added to
396 ‘leather, hide, skin’ (orig meaning:
‘remove animal hide with hands’) serving
as phonetic with associated sense taken
as i] ‘ahead, move forward’, giving ‘move
forward on road ahead’ (Katō), or ii] ‘become
separated’, giving original meaning
‘depart’ (Ogawa); Ogawa takes senses such
as ‘that, that person’ as loan uses of ; ‘goal’,
though, is perhaps an extended sense of i]
above. Mizukami lists a proposed bronze
form. MS1995:v1:482-3; QX2000:278,341;
KJ1970:471-2; OT1968:348.
Mnemonic: BOYFRIEND GOES IN FOR
LEATHER
1880
披
HI
open, disclose
L1
8 strokes
HIKENperusal
HIREKIdisclosure
HIRŌannouncement
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Has 34
‘hand’, with 396 ‘leather, hide, skin’ (original
meaning ‘remove animal hide with hands’) as
phonetic with associated sense ‘split, cleave’,
giving ‘open with the hands’. GY2008:599-600;
OT1968:409; SS1984:709.
Mnemonic: SKIN ON HAND OPENED UP
1881
L1
卑
HI, iyashii/shimu
humble, lowly, mean,
despise
9 strokes
HIGEhumility
HIKUTSUbaseness
HIKINcommon
Bronze ; seal . Taken in one view as
originally showing a hand holding a wine
vessel with a handle (Tōdō takes the vessel
to be flattish in shape), giving ‘hold (flattish)
wine vessel’ (Gu, Tōdō). Shirakawa also sees
bronze form as showing something flattish,
but a wine ladle, not a wine vessel. Ogawa,
by contrast, takes this graph as originally
showing a hand holding an oval-shaped
tool for levelling and pounding earth.
Ogawa treats ‘low’ as an extended sense,
as do Gu and Tōdō. ‘Humble; despise’ may
be seen as extended senses from ‘low’, but
Shirakawa, sees ‘humble’ as extended sense
from use of as a marker of the causative
(‘make [to do]’). GY2008:661; TA1965:513-6;
SS1984:710; OT1968:141. Awkward mnemonically
but suggest as ‘field’ 63, and
‘ten’ 35, plus two extra ‘bits’.
Mnemonic: MEAN AND LOWLY PERSON
PICKS UP BITS FROM TEN FIELDS
1882
L2
疲
HI, tsukareru
tire, exhaustion
10 strokes
HIRŌfatigue
tsukaremeeyestrain
tabizukaretravel fatigue
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Has 404
‘sick-bed, sickness’, with 396 (‘leather,
hide, skin’) as phonetic with associated
sense taken as i] ‘become tired’, giving
‘become tired through sickness’ (Ogawa), or
ii] ‘become weak’, giving ‘weakened physical
strength’ (Katō), or iii] ‘sloping, leaning’,
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