MEMorRs CARNEGIE MUSEUM, VoL IV 
Meaning 
Modern 
and s 
Seinl Form. 
Radical. 
Older Forms 
Probable 
Original. 
99 Flowers, 
f pr } {) \ 
Outer 
husk of 
100 grass or 
grain, } \ 
di 
én, 
* Thrifty 
101 growth, 
po. 
102 Difficult, 
chun, 
103 Plants 
8 ch'é,” } 
Grass, 
104 leaves, i} 
ts‘ao, 
105 Flower, +h 
4 
hua. 
Flowe ’, 
glory, 
hua. 
106 
TTo 
107 Issue, 
chu, 
tSource. 
8 of, : 
hih, 
10; 
1 
To pro- 
bear, 
shéng, 
110 To Stop, 
chih. 
Straight, 
exact, 
chéng, 
ly 
Luxuri- 
ant, 
Jeng. 
112 
AK Un 
UU 
\/ \ 
Mk 
+ | ele 
iX 
+h 
we 
a 
109 duce, to He 
we 
SE 
# 
+4 
+4 
+h 
Se ree | be ie pees ee | ee | ab pee 
xP 
Resembles No. 
| These two symb 
S€ssive gi i ‘ 
Ve sign like « of,’ 
Cutneszk [pkoGRAPHs. 
100, but Shuo Wen considers it of separate origin. 
, 
ols had a common origin. No. 107 has retained its original sense, viz., 
PLATE VIII. 
Remarks. 
Shuo Wén: ‘General term 
for flowers.” 
From y “orass”? and sign 
for husks peeled off. 
Obsolete, except in combi- 
nation. 
Shuo Wen: ‘Difficult, like 
a sprout forcing its way 
through the ground.” 
Used only in combination. 
General sign for plants. 
Yk. 
Later enlarged to &, (¥), by 
adding a phonetic. 
Picture of a flower, con- 
tracted to 44 and phonetic 
4X added. Cf. No. 106. 
A gorgeous flower. Closely 
allied to No. 105, but consid- 
ered, a separate primitive by 
Shuo Wén. 
A sprout further developed 
than Nos. 107 and 108, as 
haying reached maturity. 
Sprout impeded in its 
growth, hence ‘‘stop.’?  An- 
alogous to Nos. 107 and 108. 
Perhaps from ‘‘sprout’’ 
and ‘upward.’ Normal 
growth. See No. 287. 
A thrifty plant. Related 
to No. 109. 
“to sprout,’’ ‘issue.’? No. 108 has become a pos- 
derived from the idea “ source.’’ Both were originally ‘a sprout from the ground.” 
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