Zi:事
事 [shì] thing/event; 事情 matter/thing, business/situation; 事件 incident; 从事 deal with; (HDZ:) 官职, 职务; 职业; 事情; … [zì] 倳: 树立, 建立; 剚/倳: 插入, 刺入
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 事 shì ‘official duties/rank’ (事职, 职事) is said to combine 史(㕜) shǐ ‘history’, and 之(𡳿) zhī ‘go forth’ (abbrev. phonetic); the traditional duties entrusted to an officer of a certain feudal/hereditary rank; formerly wr. 𠭏, with a central shape like old forms of 古 gǔ ‘ancient/old’ or 告(𠰛) gào ‘report’, rather than 中 ‘center’.
Note: The received SW entry for 牛 niú ‘horned/humped-ox’ is emended to begin with a visual pun on 事(𠭏) shì ‘do/deed/thing; ability’ (DYC); cf. 牛.
Compare: 士 shì ‘scholar’ (doer of deeds); 史(㕜) shǐ ‘history’; 吏 lì ‘officer’; 使 shǐ ‘cause/send’, 寺 sì ‘government official’.
Compare: 倳 zì ‘erect/found/establish; stab’, 剚 zì ‘stab; plant’; 𤰫(𨛝邦) bāng ‘city-state’.
Compare: 支(𠬢) tāo ‘idle/frivolous; to take’ (as in 鼓, 妻).
Various old forms now associated with 事 and other characters look similar to each other: a hand holding some kind of thing/object (cf. 吏).
HDZ: 事 : shì : (SW: 職) 官职, 职务 (職事); 职业; 事情; 事故, 变故; 典故, 故实; 勤劳; 关系或责任 (没事, 没你的事); 侍奉; 奉行, 从事; 治理, 办理; 任用; 役使; (量词) 件, 副; 士; (姓) • zì : 倳: 树立, 建立 (cf. 𤰫/邦); 剚/倳: 插入, 刺入
HDC: 職事 : 职务, 职业; 任职; 官吏仪仗的一种, 官品牌
HDC: 事職 : (周) 冬官的具体职责; 职务, 职责; 履行职务
►references: Guǎngyùn:357.07,358.04; Wieger:44h; Karlgren:AD889,GSR971a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.23.3; Mathews:5787; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:85.24; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:074.0.10; Wáng(1993):67; EDOC:1
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