Sinograph Addenda · Signs

末tip · mò · tip, branch-end; the incidental

tip

Where it comes from

The same tree, the mark at the top: the tip, the branch-end — and, in argument, the incidental as against the fundamental 本root · běn · root, trunk; the fundamental. One pair of marks apart, a whole philosophy apart. Taught in the roots-and-tips chapter.

How to remember it

Underline the top of the tree instead: the tip — the last thing grown, the first thing argued away.

In the wild