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| − | <WL>夅 [jiàng] [xiáng] (old | + | <WL>夅(=降)(!舛𡕘牢) [jiàng] [xiáng] cf. 降 descend; (SW:) 夅, 服也; (DYC:) ‘降’ 行而 ‘夅’ 廢矣; (YP:) 夅, 伏也。今作 ‘降’。(服/伏 ‘fall’) |
| − | + | The Shuōwén Seal form of 夅() jiàng/xiáng ‘descend/surrender/conquer’ combines 夂() zhǐ ‘stop/impede’, and 𡕒() kuà ‘step’ (跨步); walking carefully down (a steep/terraced hill/slope, from a height), step by step, one sure/fixed foot/step behind, and another tentative/mobile step below; the upper sure/fixed foot only yields/surrenders to the lower foot after the lower mobile footing is assured. | |
| + | Note: SW glosses 夅 with 服 fú ‘serve/conquer’, said to indicate that the old meaning of 夅 is that of 夅/降服 xiángfú ‘surrender/conquer’ (DYC); 夂 represents the conqueror (above), and 𡕒 the conquered (below); cf. 降伏 xiángfú, vs. 降服 xiángfú (not 降服 jiàngfú). | ||
| + | Old graphs associated with 夅/降 suggest that 夅 represents two feet (like 止, but with toes pointing downwards; one foot raised above the other) descending an incline. | ||
| + | Compare: 降() jiàng/xiáng ‘descend/surrender/conquer’; 洚() jiàng/hóng ‘flood/floodwater; (pour/come) down (in torrents)’. | ||
| + | Compare: 止() zhǐ ‘foot; stop’; 步() bù ‘step’, 进步 ‘advance/progress’ (onward/upward); 陟() zhì ‘ascend’. | ||
| + | Compare: 舛() chuǎn ‘oppose’; 韦/韋() wéi ‘soft leather; bind round’; 舜(䑞) shùn ‘a trailing plant, bindweed’; 㷠() lín ‘ignis fatuus (ghost light)’. | ||
| + | Compare: 夆() féng ‘meet by chance’, later wr. 逢(). | ||
| + | HDZ: 夅 : cf. 降 (cf. 洚: 下) | ||
| + | HDC: 降服 : xiángfú : 投降顺服, 使投降顺服; 制服, 使驯服 | ||
| + | HDC: 降服 : jiàngfú : 脱去上服以示谢罪; 降物, 穿素服; (旧制) 丧服降低一等 | ||
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| − | #rD.2.868.4 M.654 G.039.39 KX..244.20</WL> | + | #rD.2.868.4 M.654 G.039.39 KX..244.20 |
| + | </WL> | ||
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