MEMOIRS CARNEGIE MUSEUM, VOL. IV. 
Meaning 
and 
Sound. 
Stemmed 
Wine jar, 
158 pottery, 
Sou. 
160 
161 
162Cover, lid, 
Soin, 
168 
164 
165 
166 
167 
168 
Dish, 
min. 
dish, 
tou. 
Willow 
basket, 
ki, 
Dipper, 
tou. 
Spoon, 
pi. 
* Fork, 
ya. 
Knife, 
tao. 
Net, 
wang. 
Cloak, 
a. 
+ Cap, 
mao, 
Nail, 
ting. 
* Now used for “slave girl”? by 
Modern 
Form. 
Radical. 
Seal 
Form, Older Forms. 
A. D. 
100. 
Probable 
Original. 
PLATE XII. 
Remarks. 
5 
A common ancient dish was 
shaped thus 
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Actual form of the 
seen in an exhumed specimen. 
Vessel with viands or flow- 
ers. (f. No. 156, 
Wine jar with sealed lid 
secured by cords (as now in 
China). 
Shuo Wén: ‘Picture of a 
willow cooking vessel.’’ 
(Distinguish from Ly k‘an. ) 
Now used to designate ‘ peck 
measure.”’ Cf. No. 188. Orig- 
inally a dipper. 
Rude outline of a spoon. 
Used only in combination. 
* ““wood’’ was added and 
again discarded. 
A knife blade. 
Meshes of a net. Later G 
was added as phonetic. 
Suggests a draped garment. 
Side view, or head, of nail. 
+Shuo Wén: “Small cap. 
CuInEsE [DEOGRAPHS. 
a lewd metonomy. 
Headgear of the aborigines.”” Now supplanted by spij ‘‘mao,’’ a later mechanical form. 
