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1952
芳
HŌ, kanbashii
Seal ; a late graph (Shuowen). Consists of
fragrant, good, you(/r) 53 ‘plant, vegetation’, combined with 223
L1
7 strokes
(’side, direction’) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘emit, spread’, giving ‘fragrance of vegetation
is emitted/spreads’. MS1995:v2:1110-11;
TA1965:439; OT1968:845.
HŌKŌfragrance
HŌSHIyour kindness
HŌKI girl’s age
Mnemonic: THE GRASS ON YOUR SIDE HAS A
GOOD FRAGRANCE
1953
邦
HŌ
country, Japan
L1
7 strokes
HŌGAJapanese painting
RENPŌfederation
HONPŌ our country
1954
奉
HŌ, BU, tatematsuru
offer, respectful
L1
8 strokes
HŌSHI(a) service
HŌNŌoffering
SHINPŌ faith, belief
Bronze ; seal . Bronze shows pair of
hands (or ; see Note below) holding
1953, taken as luxuriant vegetation (Ogawa)
or as phonetic with associated sense ‘move up’
(Tōdō), giving ‘(respectfully) offer up’. At seal
stage, extra (redundant) hand was added beneath,
giving block script (i.e. bottom three
strokes of are a variant of 34 ‘hand’).
Depending on perspective of person involved
in the action, this meant either ‘(respectfully)
give’ or ‘(respectfully) receive’, though the latter
Bronze ; seal . Has 376 ‘settlement,
village’, with (CO; orig. [OBI] a pictograph
of luxuriant vegetation) as phonetic with
associated sense ‘plant tree as boundary
marker’, thus ‘area with established/marked
boundaries’. Later used for a very large area,
viz. ‘state, country’. MS1995:v2:1320-21;
OT1968:1017. Take as bent telegraph pole.
Mnemonic: BENT TELEGRAPH POLES IN
VILLAGES IN THE COUNTRY OF JAPAN?
is no longer a meaning for this graph. Extended
senses include ‘respectful; serve’. Note:
The element in bronze showing a pair of hands
is taken as (orig. sense probably ‘search for
and capture’; see 898) by Katō and also Qiu, but
the shape in bronze can alternatively be interpreted
as ‘offer up’ (see e.g. 1639) which also
shows a pair of hands with upward orientation;
Gu tends towards the latter view, and is even of
the view that is the early way of writing .
QX2000:232; MS1995:v1:302-3,460-61,566-7;
GY2008:25; OT1968:247; TA1965:319-23;
AS2007:239. For mnemonic, suggest taking
as ‘two’ 65 and ‘big’ 56, and as club
with nails through.
Mnemonic: RESPECTFULLY OFFER CLUB WITH
TWO BIG NAILS THROUGH IT
1955
L2
抱
8
HŌ, (i)daku, kakaeru
embrace, hug, hold,
entertain
strokes
HŌKATSUcomprehensive
HŌKAIcherish, entertain
dakiau hug one another
A late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 34 ‘hand’
with 611 ‘envelop, wrap’, giving ‘envelop
with the hands/arms’, ‘embrace’ (also abstract).
OT1968:410; KJ1970:761-2; TA1965:231-4.
Mnemonic: TO EMBRACE IS TO ENVELOP
WITH THE ARMS
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