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 invention of the hair brush, and is now used either of a section or of a single leaf of a book. [Pien flat is composed of 戶 hu the leaf of a door, and 册 ts'ê the tablets of authority granted to the feudal nobles, formerly written with five verticals, here regarded as tablets bearing inscriptions such as are seen at the entrance to a public office. It originally meant a public office, which idea can be readily deduced from gate and tablets as above. Of course there must have been a sound pien meaning flat long before there was a character meaning office; so that the gate-and-tablets must have been called pien because of flatness, rather than that pien could have extended its meaning from gates and tablets to anything flat.]

Ch'ün is composed of 羊 yang sheep as radical, with 君 chün prince as phonetic. It is the common term for a flock of sheep, a crowd of people, etc.

Ti see.

Tzŭ see. Ti tzŭ is a compound term meaning disciples. [Eitel strangely translates, "Wherein, however, the whole of the disciples and philosophers." But ch'ün cannot be pressed to mean whole (= all), and tzŭ has here nothing to do with philosophers. Père Zottoli too has "omnes discipuli."]

Chi is composed of 言 yen words as radical with 己 i already as phonetic. It originally meant to state, and now means to record, to remember.