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Inconclusive. In the oracle bone and bronze scripts, the most common form was 日(“sun”) + 東(“bag; east”). Here are a few proposed interpretations as an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) :
日 was sometimes replaced with 田, so Qiu Xigui thinks that it may be the original character of 糧 (OC *raŋ, “grain field”).
Yu Xingwu interprets it as measuring something under the sun.
Guo Moruo interprets it as the sun rising in the east – original character of 亮 (OC *raŋs).
Huang Dekuan suspects the 日 is actually 昜 (OC *laŋ) as the phonetic component.
Shuowen interprets this as a phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *raŋ, *raŋs) : phonetic 曏(OC *qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs) + 重(“weight; heavy”).
Pronunciation 2 is possibly a *-s suffixed exopassive derivation of Pronunciation 1; thus it means "what is measured → a measure" and is cognate to Tibetanགྲངས(grangs, “number”) (see also Unger (1983))