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MEMOIRS CARNEGIE MUSEUM, VOL. IV. 
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Meaning 
and 
Sound. 
Head, 
shou. 
Face, 
mien, 
Eye, 
mu, 
Ea cs 
er, 
Nose, 
pi. 
Mouth, 
Kou, 
Hair, 
mao. 
Hand, 
shou. 
Foot, 
su, 
Wh iskers, 
er, 
Waist,* 
wish, 
yao, 
Hair 
of the 
head, 
piao, 
Heart, 
hsin, 
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Finger. 
nail, 
hia. 
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Form. 
Radical. 
Older Forms. 
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Wish,’? 
Cuinese IDEOGRAPHS. 
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given is an actual form. Figure with arms akimbo, hence ‘‘ waist. 
and so the flesh radical was added to strengthen its old meaning “ waist,’’ thus Ae. 
PLATE III 
Remarks. 
Outline of face with hair 
above. 
Original is deduced from 
extant forms. 
Oblique eye (peculiar to the 
Vhinese race) 
Outline of the human ear. 
Picture of the nose, with 
oe : 
phonetic @ “pi” added later. 
Shuo Wén: ‘That with 
which man eats and speaks, 
A picture.’ 
Possibly depicts a hairy tail. 
Five fingers. 
Contains No. 110 “ stop.”? 
Descriptive sign, not pictorial. 
Shuo Wén: ‘ Cheek-hair.”” 
Rude picture of whiskers. 
Now used only as a disjunctive 
particle. 
(See note. ) 
Descriptive symbol com- 
posed of two signs ‘long’? and 
“‘feathers.’’ 
“TWeart?’ showing ventricles. 
Usually used as cycle-sign, 
being first of the ‘Ten Stems.’ 
This sign was early adopted for “ yao,”? meaning 
