MEMOIRS CARNEGIE MUSEuM, VOL. IV. 
Radical. 
Seal 
Form, 
ASD) 
100. 
Older Forms. 
Probable 
Original. 
PLATE IV 
Remarks. 
al 
also 
Fingers with short stroke 
suggesting ‘joint.’ 
Meaning 
and Modern 
Sound, Form. 
Finger 
43 Joint, 
inch, ‘ 
tsun, 
Claw, 
ee talons, Th 
chao, ) | 
h XR 
Shuo Wén: ‘Nails of fin- 
ger and toe.” 
45 Wings, 
yi. 
yj 
Be 
Pair of wings, or long fea- 
thers. 
* Form, 
46 @ppear- x 
ance, 
mao, y (i 
7] 
Open mouth. Cf. No. 84. 
Sinew, 
Strength, 
hi, 
47 To gape, 
kan, } ) 
Overlapping muscles. 
49 Eyebrows, 
mei, | 
A 
Eye with eye-brows. 
Earliest forms are inverted. 
Probably shows the grinding 
surface of a molar. 
5 Horn, 
50 angle, 
s 
hiie, hiao, \t 
Tooth 
5 1 
ol molar, 
Ya, 
59 Front ; 
= teeth; 
ch, aA 
cS 
Bh 
Mouth showing teeth. Pho- 
netic was added later. 
53 Backhone, 
lit, 
Vertebree. 
54 Mesh, 
Jou, 
fag 
Sign suggesting a mass of 
flesh. 
55 Blood, 
hsiie, 
Shuo Wén: “Sacrificial 
blood in a dish.’’ 
56 Tongue, 
shé, 
tH | ES 
HC | Ft [3D | OO | GR) ast | Ses] we/ W)C So | WN | Sw 
ee 
Tongue protruding. Older 
forms than these might suggest 
the original. 
* Depicts the 
traction, Its speci 
CHINESE IpEOGRAPHS. 
human form, especially the face (contracted to the sign for ‘‘nose’’), which now coincides with a “ nai’? by further con- 
al significance is « individuality,’ “decorum.” 
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