bean, perilla, herb, soft, pliable
荏 centers on softness and pliability, applied to plants like beans and perilla herbs. The meanings connect through the idea of tender, yielding vegetation.
荏 combines the grass radical 艹 with 任, which likely contributes the sound. The exact historical development of the meaning 'soft' or 'bean' is uncertain.
The grass radical 艹 sits above 任, like a soft, pliable herb entrusted to the earth. Picture a tender bean plant bending gently under its own weight.
For ジン, imagine a soft bean plant infused with the essence of gin: gin -> ジン, and the herb becomes pliable and aromatic.
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wild sesame (Perilla frutescens var. frutescens); oilseed perilla; egoma
Japanese tungoil tree (Vernicia cordata)
egoma (type of perilla); Perilla frutescens var. frutescens
perilla oil
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Ebara Corporation
procrastinatingly; dillydallying