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Note: The simple form 乱 is an old popular (俗字) form of 亂, at least 1,000 years old (SBGY); use of 舌 for 𤔔 here is as in 辞/辭(); 乱 was formerly wr. 𠃹, in which the shape 口 corresp. to the two strokes 厶() → 幺() → 𤔔(); the variation in the various variant forms is chaotic (see below). | Note: The simple form 乱 is an old popular (俗字) form of 亂, at least 1,000 years old (SBGY); use of 舌 for 𤔔 here is as in 辞/辭(); 乱 was formerly wr. 𠃹, in which the shape 口 corresp. to the two strokes 厶() → 幺() → 𤔔(); the variation in the various variant forms is chaotic (see below). | ||
The Shuōwén Seal form of 乱/亂() luàn ‘(good/bad) governance’ combines 乚(乙) representing the free/untangled (governed) end of a tangled string (cf. 𤔔), and 𤔔() luàn ‘tangled/untangle (string/line/thread)’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 𤔔. | The Shuōwén Seal form of 乱/亂() luàn ‘(good/bad) governance’ combines 乚(乙) representing the free/untangled (governed) end of a tangled string (cf. 𤔔), and 𤔔() luàn ‘tangled/untangle (string/line/thread)’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 𤔔. | ||
| − | Note: In received SW texts 乱/亂() is glossed 治 zhì ‘(good) governance; (order)’, amended to “不治” ‘(bad) governance; (chaos)’ (DYC), in an attempt to explain how a word meaning ‘chaos’ should be glossed with a word meaning ‘order’ (cf. ䷾䷿); the opposite of 乱/亂 luàn ‘(bad) governance; (chaos)’ is 治 zhì ‘(good) governance; (peace)’, cf. 治(); SW sometimes gives antonymous glosses, cf. 参/參(𠻝) Shēn ‘Orion’. | + | Note: In received SW texts 乱/亂() is glossed 治 zhì ‘(good) governance; (order)’, amended to “不治” ‘(bad) governance; (chaos)’ (DYC), in an attempt to explain how a word meaning ‘chaos’ should be glossed with a word meaning ‘order’ (cf. ䷾䷿); the opposite of 乱/亂 luàn ‘(bad) governance; (chaos)’ is 治 zhì ‘(good) governance; (peace)’, cf. 治(); SW sometimes gives antonymous glosses, cf. 参/參(𠻝) Shēn ‘Orion’, 熄(), 巳(), 巳/已(㠯), 祀(). |
| − | + | “[亂] unravel: 爪又 two hands working with 幺 silk threads hung up on 冂 a stand” —Karlgren(AD). | |
Compare: 𤔔(𡄹𤕈), 𤔐(𠭟𤔬𠦸𠧎𠧏𤔦𢮣𤔒), 亂(𠃿𠃶乿𠃹釠). | Compare: 𤔔(𡄹𤕈), 𤔐(𠭟𤔬𠦸𠧎𠧏𤔦𢮣𤔒), 亂(𠃿𠃶乿𠃹釠). | ||
Compare: 𠭖(𢽤𣪏敢) gǎn ‘bold/resolute; dare’ | Compare: 𠭖(𢽤𣪏敢) gǎn ‘bold/resolute; dare’ | ||
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