entries → 署
TSUMUGU · C1 (est.) · 字
character · C1 (est.)
署 =
ㄕㄨˇ · shǔ
verb/noun — to assign, post; an office, bureau; to sign (one's name)

字源 FORM — what the parts do

a net — here spread over, drawn across (writes as 罒)
zhě — gives the sound, worn to shǔ
{z,zh,sh}Izhě → shǔ — the initial slid back to a retroflex sh
A net (网, written 罒) drawn across the whole — to lay out posts and stations across a domain. 者 zhě carries the sound, worn to shǔ. From spreading the net of posts: an office (官署), to assign someone (部署), to set one's name across a document (署名).

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一張網(罒)撒開,把一塊地的崗位都罩住、排好。
A net (罒) cast wide, covering and ordering every post across the ground.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)部署、署理— to lay out, assign, deploy
官署、警署— an office, bureau常用
署名— to sign one's name (across a document)常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension