MEMOIRS CARNEGIE Mu 
Meaning 
and Modern 
Sound. Form. 
Radical. 
> 
SEUM, VOL. IV. 
Seal 
Borm; Older Forms. 
Probable 
Original. 
Peetu 
& iver, 
cht wan, ) | | Ni 
Rl x 
86 fee K IK oe 
MA Se 
Water 
chan 2K 
87 spring, eq) | ox IK all T is % 
Poo 
88 ove 7a WK ) 
ytian. ff T ({C 
ie OK) @ @ 
so Rain, 
yu, IE Vlg. 
mh rE) fee 
Ck mock | 
90 Cloud, a = 
yiin, VS W 
ee 
91 Thunder, ~ 
lei, lui. VSB Vy 
K—____| 
92 eee Ta) Wy | GE @ 
“RFS MAA A 
ops | TSE 
shan. 
e————— 
-——__| 
Naturs al 
94 mound, 
kin, T 
-—————_ 
-————___| 
| 
95 Cliff, 
han. 
Stone, 
96 roc ky 
shih, 
Tr 
97 ‘Tee, 
Wood, 
mu, 
98 Grove, 
lin. 
: 
A 
wy & ey Mw th 
[¥ 
W 
Me OK 
F 
G 
ol fy fe 
me ek 
Hh | bk Ss 
* This ig 
beea ame the sj 
two mea 
also the or iginal 
gn for ¢* deity’ 
anings, 
Crinesr Iproararns. 
of FAP shen ‘deity,’ 
> from superstitious dread of lightning. 
PLATE VII. 
Remarks. 
4 “ Rivulet.” 
AY “Stream thirty miles 
long. 
“River.” 
Cracks or wrinkles in ice. 
Water issuing from a pool 
or vent. 
Picture of a pool, to which 
the water radical has been 
added. 
Rain drops under arch of 
spe Pa sass to resemble 
saith 
Wavy clouds with sign = 
“above,” altered to gy “rain.” 
Symbolic of reverberation 
of thunder. Rain radical was 
added later. 
Thunderbolt, to which 
“yain’? has been added. 
Three peaks. Cf. Egyptian 
thd (a coincidence). 
Eminence smaller than 
Chill en (Ore NO. don) 
Shuo Wén: ‘Rock on a 
hill under which men may 
dwell 
Perh aes ata, or stone 
falling from a cliff. 
Shuo Wén: ‘From W plant 
with roots below. Symbol for 
all wooden things.’’ 
Interlaced branches, sim- 
plified into ‘‘ two trees.’’ 
After much research I am inclined to consider these as depicting lightning, which 
Later the radicals 7K and \#y were respectively added to distinguish the 
