MEMOIRS CARNEGIE MUSEUM, VOL. IV. PEAT Hex. 
Meanir = Seal 
and 8 Modern & Form, Olde Ronne Probable . : 
Sound. Form. 2 ane der Jorms. Original. Remarks. 
97 Chestnut. | 
127 es ; eA 
Chestnut burs on a tree. 
(Not related to its radical. ) 
5 
300 1500-| Gar] 20D |) | oR) WE PAP HO 
ue 
@® 2, & ©, 
ee & 
>. Shuo Wén: ‘‘The tree 
Se whose leaves silkworms eat.” 
Leaves on a tree. 
ese ulberry te 
28 tree, Zz AR 
sang. ci > 
129 Year, 
nien, + 
139 Season 
30 pane zIN ao 
These two signs are 
eliaeth related, but are ob- 
J) secure in origin. 
] No. 129 may be ‘‘crops’’ 
and ‘‘thousand.’’? No. 180 
A 
RARETAT 
gS SK 
' may be ‘‘erops”’ and ‘son.’ 
New moon at evening. Cf. | 
No. 72. | 
Perini 
13] “Yening, 
Bee a 4 4 
ae Shell, Bivalve shell. : 
82 value, 4 A “= Shuo Wén: “Picture of a | 
pet. a caaes seashell. . . . ‘‘Ancients ex- 
yh JU changed shells as money.”’ 
Earth-basins for evaporat- 
ing salt. 
#o 
133 a 
xr | -~ 
ge | As |= 
134 Silk, mi. Twist of silk, or possibly 
> Mi. A the larva of silk cocoon fa- \ 
PAIN aN miliar to the ancient Chinese. 
| 
Silk 
135 thread, 4, 
si. \ A 
Derived from No. 184. 
136 Vapor, pee 
hei, = Sign suggesting rising 
vapor. 
fe 
ara 
}s( 
fl 
id) 
Steam from fire Jk, or mist 
from sun ©. 
Oi ee |e ie 
7” Stes 
187 a 
7) 
at 
WM 
ate] fT 
St 
217] 
a) 
E77, 
AAslO) 
ev 
= 
el 
Sign 
138 teree Dal AYN 6A’ Smoke above ‘‘fire.’? An- 
Piao, U cient method of signalling in 
; [ \ China. 
139 t Mirage, 
kao, 
w Hier [ok Iujas| A ow A Rw A 
SLUR RS FB wR 
Undulating air. 
[oot a | 
SIE 
‘i 
: 
’ 
“Man” bearing ‘‘torch.’”’ 
ey: 
Val 
el | 
(V nts show other roots 
containing ‘‘sun’’ and “‘fire.’’ ) 
] 
a Ciine sores a eee Ciuinesr IDEOGRAPHS. : cares, | 
or basing, Se Y evaporation from large, square, shallow pools upon the alkali plains. his sign is either a picture of such pools ] 
or possibly su 
TShuo Wen : 
a ae a field with patches of alkali. A more complex symbol is now used instead of this. 
wising air tending to expand, but obstructed as it curls upward.”’ 
