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verbs. With this meaning it is now read ts'êng2, while read tsêng1 as above it means to add to, and here qualifies another tsu, understood. It is also a common surname (line 128), and is now classed under radical 曰 yüeh.

Tsu is composed of 示 shih, which is supposed to represent divine commands sent down from heaven, and 且 ch'ieh, which originally meant to set forth in sacrifice, q.d. worship of ancestors (see line 274). [The line runs, High-ancestor, add-ancestor, and ancestor, the last of which is here narrowed down to grandfather, in colloquial 祖父 tsu fu.

90.

father and self,
Fu4

êrh2

shên1

Father and body

Fu see line 18.

Erh see line 45.

Shên is regarded as a picture of the human body. It is also used in the senses of I, self.

91.

self and son,
Shên1

êrh2

tzŭ3

Body and son

Shên see line 90.

Erh see line 45.

Tzŭ see line 11.

92.

son and grandson,
Tzŭ3

êrh2

sun1

Son and grandson

Tzŭ see line 11.

Erh see line 45.

Sun is composed of 子 tzŭ son and 系 hsi connected, from which

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