Monday, February 19, 2018

We can remember it for you 卸 (おろし, wholesale) -- title of a story by Philip Dick

𦈢 is listed by Wiktionary as a variant form of , earthen jar.  Here it, or at least part of it (per Henshall) is a pestle, and 卩 is a kneeling person, though I see it often as seal.  Pounding something with a pestle makes it manageable, maybe and that's kind of like governing.

I'll treat it as an earthen jar with a crack in it (the line moved at its lower right), so that I can get...

, wholesale:  You're selling something (wine?) wholesale?  Better seal
                           those messed-up jars.
, govern:       At the crossroads (that is, in a public place), seal the messed-up
                           jars to manage/govern the leaks, a wholesale solution.

御卸

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