曈 prior to rising, not yet rising; twilight prior to sunrise, twilight after sunset 量,立,日,曰,童,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

トウ　･　ツ
TO　U　･　TSU

Kun-yomi

ほのぐら(い
ho　no　gu　ra　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

量

リョウ,はか capacity, quantity, amount, volume, degrees, weight, dose, magnitude, estimated measure

　ON THE VERGE, ON THE EDGE, AT THE BRINK with MEASUREMENT TESTING FOR INCLUSION, THE BIRTH PLACE, INTERNAL LINING OF SOIL PATH, AREA OF SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION
…or: FEUDAL LORD BRAGGART, CHUTZPAH GALL, HUSBAND, BROTHEL CLIENT, FEMALE ROLE, DAWNING, AN AWAKENING with BIRTH ORIFICE, PROSTITUTION DISTRICT, AREA OF SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION, MEASUREMENT TESTING FOR INCLUSION
…or: ROD, INDICATES EXTENT with TONGUING IN MOUTH, ON THE EDGE, AT THE BRINK and PRICK within ORIFICE
　

立

リツ,リュウ,リットル,た,～た,たて～,～だ standing erect, erection, to set up, in a standing position, preparations for subsequent use, establish, leading, swelled, enlarged, engorged, to get started

　emphasis on ROD, SEGMENT with SPURTING SHAFT STANCE
…or: CONTROL over SWELLED SHAFT
…or: PALMING, HEAD with ARRAY of ROD EMISSIONS
　

日

ニチ,ジツ,ひ,～び,～か Sun, day, bright and flashing, brilliant, heat, hot

　CIRCLE DIVIDED
…or: TWO STACKED ORIFICES
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

童

ドウ,わらべ juvenile, male child, servant, student, involuntary, virgin, not yet deflowered, pupil of the eye

　PRICK, PAINFUL CONDITION within ORIFICE, MOUTH of SPEW FROM, SPAWNED, SPURT, SPRAYED AND SQUIRTED IN ANY OR ALL DIRECTIONS, SPIT OUT
…or: SOIL, FECES within TONGUING MOUTH of SHOUT, INFORM BY SUSTAINED LOUD VOICE, UNRULY, DEFIANT, WARNING SIGN
…or: GARBAGE, RECEIVING THE SHITTY END OF THE STICK with PLUGGED AND FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT
…or: STANDING ERECTION, PREPARATIONS FOR SUBSEQUENT USE, SWELLED, ENLARGED, ENGORGED, TO GET STARTED with RURAL COUNTRYSIDE, INTERNAL LINING OF PATHWAY INTO NIGHT SOIL, MEASUREMENT TESTING FOR INCLUSION
　

Meanings of elements

DOSE with STANDING ERECTION
…or: ESTIMATED MEASURE of STANDING ERECTION of JUVENILE
…or: SUN and VIRGIN, JUVENILE
…or: TONGUING MOUTH of JUVENILE BOY
…or: TONGUING MOUTH with STANDING ERECTION and PRICK in MOUTH ORIFICE

「Estimated measure, capacity, volume of engorged erection standing of juvenile boy」as PRIOR TO, NOT YET RISING since the boy is still juvenile, obviously.
Morning twilight, not yet bright and flashing, prior to rising is the figurative meaning of PRE-DAWN, a「juvenile sun」as it were. Literally, a boy who is still too small and young to get it on, not yet bright and flashing.「Tonguing mouth of juvenile boy」as perhaps the start of his daily pre-dawn chores (see 活, 息, 憩). Note that TWILIGHT occurs twice each day, before the Sun's rising and after it sets: twi-light means the light that occurs twice, and also half-light that is either not yet or no longer lit and flaming.
A boy performing fellatio has never been uncommon throughout history and in any culture:
「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977).」
[ https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: sun about to rise
Japanese EDRDG: twilight just before sunrise
Unihan extended: twilight just before sunrise

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.