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at clerical script stage. Note: 尃 comprises
920 ‘hand’, with (probable original
meaning: ‘seedling bed, vegetable field’;
see 1906 Note) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘spread the fingers (to measure)’,
giving ‘spread the four fingers (to measure)’.
OT1968:443; MS1995:582-3; KJ1970:857;
SK1984:352. Take left side as variant of
925 ‘exclusive’.
Mnemonic: BEAT A VARIED EXCLUSIVE
SPREAD AND LAY IT OUT
1916
膚
FU, hada
skin
L2
15 strokes
HIFUENdermatitis
HIFUskin
samehadashagreen, dry skin
Seal ( ) . Shuowen has as the entry
heading, and notes as variant. consists
of / 209 ‘flesh, meat, body’, with (CO,
interpretations of meaning vary; see Note
below) as phonetic with associated sense
‘spread, cover’, giving ‘flesh/that which covers
surface of the body’, i.e. ‘skin’. At the clerical
script stage, a significant change in shape took
place, with left-hand / commonly omitted
and the lower element changed to 447
‘stomach’ (possibly as just a graphic variant).
Note: occurrent OBI and bronze shapes of
vary, and interpretations vary in consequence.
Mizukami and Katō are agreed, though, that
and