豫 at ease, no worries 予,象,

注意：このページには、一部の読者にとって不快または不適切な内容が含まれている可能性があります。
Note: This page may contain content that is offensive or inappropriate for some readers.

MingLiU:

Mincho:

Gothic:

豫

Login Welcome!　Introduction
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.

On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

⺕　･　シャ
YO　･　SHA

Kun-yomi

あらかじ(め
a　ra　ka　ji　me

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

予

⺕,シャ,あらかじ to give to another, I myself, prior, occur in advance, plenty, surplus, to manifest, to express and induce a desired effect, to express oneself fully and unreservedly, lordosis position

　ON ALL FOURS and ROLLED BACK with STREAM
　

象

ショウ,ゾウ,かたど elephant, phenomenon, image, shape, pattern, imitate, to be modeled after, a sign of the times

　HEAD AND NECK, TWO-SIDED, ANIMAL THAT CANNOT RUN
…or: IN DANGER from VULVA, ROWDY JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES of OBESE ANIMAL
　

Meanings of elements

EXPRESS ONESELF FULLY AND UNRESERVEDLY, LORDOSIS POSITION, IN ADVANCE, PLENTY and ELEPHANT, PHENOMENON, IMAGE, SHAPE, PATTERN, IMITATE, TO BE MODELED AFTER

「Plenty, a surplus of folks all imitating and patterned after the lordosis position of obeisance」should make anyone feel like an emperor, AT EASE surrounded by slaves willing to obey every command and satisfy any whim.「The phenomenon of being plenty able to express oneself fully and unreservedly」suggests being AT EASE. Presumably if riding an「elephant」long ago, a person could feel fairly safe and AT EASE, RELAXED.「In advance」are「elephants」might also help you feel relaxed, since the animals might keep the tigers at bay.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: happy; carefree; at one's ease; variant of 預|预; old variant of 與|与; abbr. for Henan province 河南 in central China
Japanese EDRDG: relaxed, comfortable, at ease
Unihan extended: relaxed, comfortable, at ease

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.