TSUMUGU · TOCFL 3 (est.) · 字
藝
藝 ＝ 埶 ＋ 艹 ＋ 云
ㄧˋ · yì
noun — skill, craft; art
字源 FORM — what the parts do
埶聲yì — the old graph of this very word: a figure planting a seedlinghands (丮) set the young tree into the soil (坴)
艹義plants — added later
云空a filler added in later copying
Knees in the dirt, hands setting a seedling — 埶 yì, the original graph, a figure planting. The plants (艹) and the small 云 were added by later copyists. Planting is tending a thing until it grows: the cultivated skills — 工藝、藝術.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
膝蓋抵著土，兩手（埶）把苗扶直，再壓實根邊的泥。
Knees against the soil; two hands (埶) hold the seedling straight and press the earth at its root.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)種植— to plant — 園藝 gardening keeps it
→技藝、手藝— skill, craft — tended until grown
⇒藝術— art常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension