Ssŭ is composed of 食 shih to eat (line 76) as radical, and 司 ssŭ to manage as phonetic (line 334). [For eight extra lines which in some editions are inserted here, see Appendix I.]
81. | 曰 | 喜 | 怒 | We speak of joy, of anger, | |
Yüeh4 | hsi3 | nu4 | |||
Speak | joy | anger |
Yüeh see line 57.
Hsi is composed of 口 k'ou mouth as radical and an obsolete word associated with joy. It appears in the Shuo Wên as a radical.
Nu is composed of 心 hsin heart as radical and 奴 nu slave as phonetic.
82. | 曰 | 哀 | 懼 | we speak of pity, of fear, | |
Yüeh4 | ai1 | chü4 | |||
Speak | pity | fear |
Yüeh see line 57.
Ai is composed of 衣 i clothes with 口 k'ou mouth inserted in the middle as radical. This is a common arrangement (lines 38, 161). Eitel wrongly renders by "grief."
Chü is composed of 心 hsin heart as radical, with a phonetic made up of two 目 mu eyes over 隹 chui a short-tailed bird. The phonetic originally meant the glance of a kite, which would excite fear; hence it came to mean timid, and was probably used in early times without its present radical. One old form was two 目 mu eyes over 心 hsin heart. Some cheap editions erroneously read 樂 lo; hence Eitel's rendering "pleasure."
83. | 愛 | 惡 | 欲 | of love, of hate, and of desire. | |
Ai4 | wu4 | yü4 | |||
Love | hate | desire |
Ai was originally composed of 夊 sui to walk slowly as radical,