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added to indicate meaning of ‘side’ (Ogawa).
Schuessler confirms meanings ‘side’ and
‘everywhere’ for , and ‘side’ may well be the
extended sense as Katō suggests, but there
is the question of why‘person’ would be
added to denote the meaning ‘side’. The first
analysis seems more persuasive. KJ1970:764;
OT1968:77; AS2007:409. Take as ‘side’
223 and as ‘stand’ 77 strangely.
Mnemonic: PERSON STANDING STRANGELY
TO THE SIDE
1978
L2
帽
BŌ
cap, headgear
12 strokes
BŌSHIhat
BŌSHŌcap badge
GAKUBŌschool cap
1979
貌
BŌ
form, appearance
L1
14 strokes
ZENBŌfull story/picture
FŪBŌlooks, appearance
HENBŌtransformation
Seal ; late graph (Shuowen). Original
graph is taken to be , showing a person
41 wearing a face mask () (Ogawa, Tōdō).
In one view, taken as mask for a deceased
person, the mask representing emphasis on
1980
膨
BŌ, fukuramu/reru
swell, expand
L1
16 strokes
BŌDAIswelling
BŌMANinflation (air/gas)
BŌCHŌBENexpansion valve
Late, post-Shuowen graph. Has 209
‘meat, body’, with (‘drum reverberations’;
see Note below) as phonetic with associated
sense ‘swell up’, giving ‘flesh/stomach
swells up’; then generalized to ‘swell up’.
Late, post-Shuowen graph; traditional . Has
1232 ‘cloth’, with 1974 (‘risk, attack’;
itself originally meant ‘headgear’) as semantic
and phonetic meaning ‘cover’, thus ‘hood,
skullcap’. Later, headwear in general. Katō suggests
was devised to represent the meaning
‘headgear’once became established to write
meanings such as ‘risk; attack’. OT1968:319;
KJ1970:771; TA1965:238; GY2008:1436. Take
as ‘sun’ 66, ‘eye’ 76.
Mnemonic: WEAR CLOTH CAP TO SHADE
EYES FROM SUN
outer form or appearance, hence the sense
‘form, appearance’ (Shirakawa). (1363,
wide semantic range including ‘predatory
wild beast’ and ‘crawling insect’) is an element
added later (Qiu notes that some see
this as abbreviation of [NJK, ‘leopard,
panther’]), apparently with a phonetic function.
OT1968:951; TA1965:280; SS1984:795-6;
QX2000:299; MS1995:v2:1226-9. Take as
‘white’ 69.
Mnemonic: PERSON WITH WHITE MASK HAS
APPEARANCE OF WILD BEAST
Note: Based on OBI occurrences of , the
element here is best treated as visual
representation of reverberations from a
drum (CO 壴 is the stylized shape), not as
the more common same-shaped element
as in 115 ‘shape, form’ and 1375
‘color, colorful’. OT1968:828; SS1984:802;
GY2008:1367,1896,781; MR2007:313-4;
SS1984:790. Take 壴 as ‘samurai’ 521, as
strange ‘bean’ 379; and as ‘hairs’.
Mnemonic: SAMURAI’S BODY SWELLS AFTER
EATING STRANGE HAIRY BEANS
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