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<WL>秀 [xiù] 优秀 | <WL>秀 [xiù] excellent/outstanding (优秀); 秀才 talented scholar; 秀丽 beautiful/handsome, 秀美 graceful/elegant; flower, produce seed/fruit (苗而不秀, 秀而不實) | ||
#i4 | #i4 | ||
The Shuōwén Seal form of 秀(秂) xiù combines 禾 (hé | The Shuōwén Seal form of 秀(秂) xiù ‘flower/bear (excellent/outstanding) seed/fruit’ combines 禾() hé ‘grain’ above, and 乃/人() rén ‘person’ below: within every grain/seed/fruit is the potential flowering of a fruitful/wise person/ruler (DYC: …凡果實中有人…); cf. 秃(禿) tū ‘bald/bare’. | ||
Note: In Shuōwén both the gloss and seal form of this character were omitted in the E. Hàn dynasty text, by taboo (避讳) on an ancestral Hàn imperial name (漢世祖名) 劉秀, cf. (DYC:) 祜. | |||
“The seal has 九 instead of 乃: a 九 ninefold 禾 harvest: rich crop, flourishing” —Karlgren. | “The seal has 九 instead of 乃: a 九 ninefold 禾 harvest: rich crop, flourishing” —Karlgren. | ||
HDZ: 秀 : xiù : 谷类抽穗开花; 草类结籽; 草木的花; 草木茂盛; 优异出众; 俊美, 秀丽; (宋明); 秃/禿; 繡; (姓) | Note: Karlgren (1923) is probably referring to Wieger, who gives a seal form of 秀 with 禾 over 九 below, and a story about 劉秀; DYC does not mention this story or seal form. | ||
#rG.436.24 K.AD805,GSR1095a D.4.2589.4 M.2803 KX..849.03 B.051.1.10 WHY...182 E.1 | “This character [秀] was made, they say, to be used as the name of the founder of the 後漢 Hòu Hàn Dynasty [东汉], 劉秀 Liú Xiù [光武皇帝, d. 57 AD]. At his birth, 有嘉禾一茎九穗, 因名秀 a story says there were found, hanging down from one 禾 stalk , 九 nine beautiful ears [presaging the future emperor's elevation]” —Wieger/Davrout (p. 66) | ||
Note: Karlgren (1957) reconstructed 秀() xiù ‘flower/flourish’ and 修() xiū ‘adorn’ as OC homophones *si̯ôg. | |||
Compare: 委() wěi ‘yield/follow’. | |||
HDZ: 秀 : xiù : 谷类抽穗开花; 草类结籽 (结子); 草木的花; 草木茂盛; 优异出众; 俊美, 秀丽; (宋明); 秃/禿; 繡; (姓) | |||
#rG.436.24 W.66 K.AD805,GSR1095a D.4.2589.4 M.2803 KX..849.03 B.051.1.10 WHY...182 E.1 | |||
#c禾乃 | #c禾乃 | ||
#y sau- | #y sau- | ||
</WL> | </WL> | ||
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