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Word Family of Terms Originally Pronounced TAR
Semantic Values of the Sound TAR: (Extend) Straight + Continuum
In this word family, the nuance of a continuum with respect to a straight object takes primarily spatial, but also temporal forms.
Vertical manifestations appear in 多, 移, 弟, and 第.
Horizontal manifestations appear in 池, 施, 蛇, 旨, 逮 and 視.
Depending on how they are positioned, a long, straight arrow (矢) and the long bones of the body (体) can be either vertical or horizontal.
Temporal applications involve the idea of the slow passage of time, expressed by references to slow-moving animals in 駄, 遅 and 稚.
Among the non-Everyday Use Characters, we find the following examples:
A vertical continuum
Descend a hill/mountain (夂)
Taller and shorter people(s) compared (夷)
A steep bank/slope (陀, 墀)
A rudder/helm (舵)
Falling tears (涕)
A ladder (梯)
A large tree (杕)
Bend/hang low and scrape the ground (彽)
Low-hanging spikelets (稊)
A plant with rows of cloud-like flowers (棣)
A diving bird that swoops down on prey (鵜, 鴟, 鵄)
Bird with an elongated neck (鴕)
A bottom-heavy bird (鳲)
Dripping nasal mucus; flowing tears (洟)
A braided cord pushed through the hair (絁)
Blistered/chapped skin (胝)
A hairpiece (髢)
The coccyx at the end of the spinal cord (骶)
People in a figurative vertical relationship (姨)
Look down upon (睇)
A log-shaped feces(屎)
A horizontal continuum
A charging boar (豕)
Butt heads/horns (牴, 羝, 觝)
Seize an animal by the tail (隶)
A long snout (鼉)
A long snake (它)
Progress in the manner of a snake (迤)
Drag along the ground (佗, 拕)
Stumble (跎)
Flowing stream/river (沱)
Sandbars (坻)
Thick, rolling clouds (靆)
A tie beam (柁)
A piece of wood extending from a wall (椸)
A camel with a long, humped back (駝)
A long, dragon-like creature (螭)
A galloping horse (馳)
A corpse (屍) A pheasant's long, arrow-like tail feathers (雉)
A flute (篪)
Long pieces of cloth stitched together (黹)
A temporal continuum
Rigor mortis (尸)
Thrusting a pike or chopping with a hatchet (鉈)
Scraping at subterranean roots (氐)
Sharpening/polishing with a whetstone (砥, 厎)
Mow vegetation (薙)
Shaving (剃)
Practice/study/learn (肄)
Preserved food (嗜)
Extensions of meaning or abstract applications of the senses noted above are found in the remaining characters in this group.
Compare the SAR word family, a branch of the TAR word family emphasizing applications that have in particular to do with smallness, thinness or slenderness.
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