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taken as ‘avoid’, thus ‘hanging curtain for privacy’.
Ogawa takes as ‘(living) body, person’,
with 幷 / as phonetic with associated sense
‘withdraw, retreat’, giving overall meaning
‘retreat’. Presumably was devised originally
to denote ‘wall of packed earth’ 64, but later
became generalized to ‘wall, fence, enclosure’.
MS1995:v1:412-3; OT1968:297. Take as stylised
‘well’ 1575.
Mnemonic: CORPSE FOUND IN FANCY WELL
SCREENED BY EARTHEN WALL
1936
L1
幣
HEI, nusa
offerings, money
15 strokes
SHIHEIpaper money
KAHEIcoin, money
HEIHAKUShintō offerings
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen); traditional
form has (CO, ‘damaged clothing; be damaged/destroyed’;
see Note below)as upper
element. The graph consists of 1232 ‘(piece
of) cloth’, combined with as phonetic with
associated sense ‘offer up’, giving ‘cloth for
offering’. The meaning was later generalized
to ‘gift’, and by further extension to ‘currency’.
Prayer offerings to the gods of Shintō shrines
include in particular cloth, and rope, along with
cut and folded paper strips, the latter typically
interwoven into an intricate pattern. It has
been a tradition to make offerings on particular
occasions, often (at least originally) specific to
particular localities, such as in some eastern
parts of Japan (and probably elsewhere) there
are prayers and offerings to the mountain deities
on New Year’s Day, in this particular case
bundles of straw being hung in trees. Note:
consists of / 112 ‘strike, cause to do, force’,
combined with 㡀 , a CO ‘rip, tear’ as semantic
and phonetic, giving ‘tear cloth’; by extension,
‘damaged clothing; be damaged/destroyed’.
㡀 is comprised of ‘cloth’, with the four short
downward diagonal strokes representing
rips or tears. MS1995:v1:580-81; KJ1970:837;
OT1968:320; TA1965:652; SS1984:763.
Mnemonic: FORCED TO TEAR CLOTH STRIPS
AS OFFERINGS TO THE SHRINE
1937
L1
弊
15
HEI
evil, exhaustion, be
humble
strokes
HEISHAour (humble) firm
HIHEIexhaustion
HEIGAIevil, abuse
Seal ( 獘 ) ; is a late, post-Shuowen graph.
獘 consists of 19 ‘dog’, with (‘damaged
clothing; be damaged/destroyed’; see 1936
Note) as phonetic with associated sense
‘become tired, collapse’, giving ‘dog collapses’
(probably during hunting). ‘Exhaustion’ is an
extended sense. Katō takes ‘evil, abuse’ as a
loan usage; HEI- as a prefix in Japanese (older
literary style) meaning ‘my/our’ (humble connotation)
is also probably a loan usage. The
popular form , with the erroneous lower
element (‘hands offering up’, see e.g. 1639)
as determinative appears to be a development
in block script; in clerical script we find another
example of a divergent writing, this one still
quite close to 獘 in shape, having 56
‘big’ instead of dog . MS1995:v2:844-5;
DJ2009:v3:798; KJ1970:838; SK1984:488;
OT1968:336-7.
Mnemonic: EVILLY FORCED TO TEAR
MY HUMBLE CLOTH WITH BOTH
HANDS – EXHAUSTING
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