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| − | <WL>每 [měi] every/each; 每天 měitiān every day@@; (HDZ:) 草盛的样子; …; (姓) [mèi] 每/昧 (HDC:) 每每=昧昧 | + | <WL>每 [měi] every/each; 每天 měitiān every day@@; (HDZ:) 草盛的样子; …; (姓) [mèi] 每/昧, (HDC:) 每每=昧昧 |
#i3 | #i3 | ||
| − | The | + | The Shuōwén Seal form of 每(𡴋) měi ‘every/each’ (formerly ‘flourishing plants’) combines 屮() chè ‘grass’ (coming forth), and 母() mǔ ‘mother’ (phonosemantic); to enter into the world, every living thing must emerge from its fertile/flourishing mother; 屮() here is as in 出(岀) ‘go out, emerge’. |
| − | “Already from the earliest times applied to a homophonous abstract word: each, every; constantly” —Karlgren. | + | In the modern form 每 the old component 屮/𠂇 grass (half of 艸 cǎo ‘grass/herb’) is written 𠂉 (每字头), and it is said that this (隶书) change shows the change in usage, from ‘flourishing plants’ to abstract ‘every/each’. |
| − | Note: 每( | + | “Already from the earliest times applied to a homophonous abstract word: each, every; constantly” —Karlgren (AD). |
| − | + | Note: 每(𡴋) měi ‘flourishing plants’ is signific (with its old meaning) in 繁(䋣) fán ‘numerous’; 敏() mǐn ‘quick’ (easy childbirth); in the old wr. 毓(育) yù ‘nurture’ 每 is an augmented form of 母 mǔ ‘mother’ (cf. 后). | |
| − | Compare: 某(槑) mǒu ‘certain/some’ ( | + | Compare: 梅(楳) méi ‘plum/prune’; 莓(苺) méi ‘strawberry’ (草莓); 海() hǎi ‘sea’. |
| − | HDZ: 每 : měi : 草盛的样子; 逐个, 各个; (副词) (每一次; 经常); (量词) 虽然; 們; 么; (助词); 無; 謀; (姓) | + | Compare: 某(槑) mǒu ‘certain/some’ (formerly 楳/梅 méi ‘plum/prune’). |
| + | HDZ: 每 : měi : 草盛的样子; 逐个, 各个; (副词) (每一次; 经常); (量词) 虽然; 們; 么; (助词); 無; 謀; (姓) | ||
#rG.272.32,387.51 W.67p H.206 K.AD607,GSR947i D.4.2381.2 M.4401 KX..589.02 B.052.0.03 WHY...180 E.1 | #rG.272.32,387.51 W.67p H.206 K.AD607,GSR947i D.4.2381.2 M.4401 KX..589.02 B.052.0.03 WHY...180 E.1 | ||
#c𠂉母 | #c𠂉母 | ||
#y muih/ | #y muih/ | ||
</WL> | </WL> | ||
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