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profile, would seem the likely original meaning,
and Katō gives several forms he believes to
be OBI, featuring an animal head on projected
altar along with two hands making the offering;
however, textual sources for these are
not clear: e.g., no such forms are listed in the
extensive OBI catalogue by Matsumaru and
Takashima (MT1993). Despite this, ‘altar’ seems
a strong contender. Mizukami lists this possible
interpretation with the meaning ‘chopping
board in form of a stand with legs for ritual
offerings’. The seal form differs in having a top
horizontal stroke. As Katō suggests, this may be
to represent the sacrifice. The meaning ‘third
of the Heavenly Stems’ (a traditional Chinese
ordering system of ten) is a loan use of .
OT1968:19; KJ1970:939-40; MT1993:164,391-2;
MS1995:v1:10-11; TA1965:444. Take as 207
‘inside’ and 1 ‘one’.
Mnemonic: THIRD ONE INSIDE IS RATED ‘C’
1933
L1
併
HEI, awaseru
unite, join
8 strokes
GAPPEImerger
HEIYŌjoint use
HEIHATSUcomplication
Seal ; traditional 倂 . Has 41 ‘person’,
with 幷 (traditional form of NJK ‘put/join
together’), giving ‘(two persons) lined up/put
together’ (see 1904 Note 1). Katō and some
others treat it as variant of 幷 / withadded
as determinative, which no doubt is the case
(see Note below). The meanings of and
are the same (‘join together’), but in modern
Japanese texts is used rather than . Note:
Mizukami lists proposed OBI equivalent for
which lacks , identical to OBI equivalents for
977 ‘row, line’). MS1995:v1:74-5,446-7,
v2:980-81; OT1968:61; KJ1970:836-7. Take as
stylized ‘well’ 1575.
Mnemonic: UNITE TO GET PERSON OUT OF
FANCY WELL
1934
L1
柄
9
HEI, gara, e
handle, pattern, one’s
nature
strokes
ŌHEIarrogance
iegarafamily pedigree
nagaelong handle, spear
OBI ; seal . Has 73 ‘wood’, with (‘3 rd ’,
1932, q.v.) as phonetic with associated sense
‘take in hand’, thus ‘wood to take in hand’, i.e.
‘handle’. Other meanings would seem loan
usage. OT1968:500; GY2008:801.
Mnemonic: HANDLE IS MADE OF ‘C’ GRADE
WOOD
1935
塀
HEI
fence, wall, screen
L1
12 strokes
DOBEIearthen wall
itaBEIboard fence
HEIgoshiover a fence
A kokuji ‘made in Japan’ graph. Traditional form
has as right-hand element, comprising
256 ‘prone body/corpse’, but here with probable
meaning ‘hanging curtain’, combined with
幷 / (‘put together’; see 1904 Note 1) as phonetic
with associated sense taken in one view
as ‘flat’, thus ‘flat curtain/screen’, and ‘hedge/
fence’ as extended sense (Mizukami). Mizukami
notes another analysis with associated sense
578 The Remaining 1130 Characters