Zi:最
最 [zuì] most; 最近 recently, soon; 最喜欢 favorite; (HDZ:) (古) 冒犯而取之; … [cuō] 撮
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 最 zuì ‘supreme (most superior) warrior’ combines 日(冃) mào ‘(barbarian/child's) hat; offend’ (as in 冒, 冒犯, 冡/蒙, 帽), and 取 qǔ ‘take’ (phonosemantic): the supreme warrior is the one with the most battle casualties, most able to seize/take sth. forcefully.
Note: The old meaning 最 zuì ‘most superior warrior’ relates to old 取 qǔ ‘take (the most) enemy ears (from corpses, in tallying battle casualties)’; 取 seems to be phonetic in 最 (XK); cf. 撮 cuō ‘cloth/silk hat band’.
Compare: 馘(聝) guó ‘cut off left ear of enemy’ (from corpses, in tallying battle casualties).
Compare: 冣 jù ‘collect/gather’; 聚 jù ‘gather’.
Compare: 撮 cuō ‘pinch/scoop’ (formerly also wr. 最).
“[最] The seal has not 日 or 曰 but: 取 take and 冃 cover” —Karlgren(AD).
HDZ: 最 : zuì : (古) 冒犯而取之; (古) 考核军功或政绩时以上者为最; 居于首要地位的人或事物; 要, 要言; 凡要, 簿书的纲要, 总目; 聚, 聚合; (副词) (凡, 总; 极, 尤; 正, 正在); (姓) • cuō : 撮
►references: Guǎngyùn:382.10; Karlgren:AD1109,GSR325b; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:2.1516.8; Mathews:6858; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:503.05; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:225.1.02; EDOC:1
►components: 日取冃曰
►Cantonese: jeui-
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