蟒 python, boa, constrictor snakes, constricting a snake-like appendage 虫,艹,犬,芖,廾,莽,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ボウ　･　モウ
BO　U　･　MO　U

Kun-yomi

うわばみ　･　おろち
u　wa　ba　mi　･　o　ro　chi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり fucking, emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

犬

ケン,いぬ,いぬ～ canid; domesticated dog

　TAUT LEASH with IN HAND
…or: BIG in TWO HANDS with emphasis
…or: ADULT MALE ROD with emphasis marker
　

芖

チ,おさ to gain control of, to subdue, govern

　EMERGING SHAFTS STALKS STEMS and TWO-HANDED, BOTH HANDS, BIG
　

廾

キョウ,ク,にじゅう two-handed, working with both hands at once; two hands together; a pair of hands; offering something

　ERECTION with SCREWING OR TWISTING, FULL
　

莽

ボウ,モウ,くさ highly toxic environment, cluster of shafts, thicket, underbrush, impertinent, exceeding the limits of propriety, grossly ill-mannered, improperly bold, Japanese star anise

　TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS, EMERGING SHAFTS with UNRESTRICTED MOVEMENT, DISPERSED, RUNNING WILD, FEATHER-BRAINED, HARE-BRAINED
…or: GAIN CONTROL OF, SUBDUE with OFFER OF ERECTION SCREWING
…or: EMERGING SHAFT of DOG and WORKING WITH BOTH HANDS AT ONCE
　

Meanings of elements

SNAKE, LOWER LIFE FORM, TO HAVE A LOVER, PERSON WITH A PARTICULAR UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERISTIC with EMERGING SHAFT of DOG and SCREWING ERECTION
…or: GAIN CONTROL OF, TO SUBDUE with TWISTING in STIFFNESS
…or: SNAKE and DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT, THICKET, UNDERBRUSH, IMPERTINENT, EXCEEDING THE LIMITS OF PROPRIETY, GROSSLY ILL-MANNERED, IMPROPERLY BOLD

[Elements vary by font]「Snake」like a「thicket」as a type of CONSTRICTOR SNAKE. Note that such snakes are not venomous, but instead kill by squeezing prey, suffocating it with a coiling twisting shape. In that sense, the middle-right element may not only be「domesticated dog, canid」but rather depicts another set of hands emphasized, that are attempting to remove the constrictor snake from one's neck by squeezing out the blockage.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: python
Japanese EDRDG: boa constrictor, python
Unihan extended: python, boa constrictor

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.