癙 ill, hidden, secret, tuberculosis, scrofula 疒,鼠,

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疒

ダク,ニャク,ソウ,ジョウ,シツ,や illness, disease, sick, physical ailment, lying down

　BADLY BENT ERECTION with FLUIDS
…or: PALMING, CONTROL over DRIPPING with ERECTION
…or: CONGEALED in HAND and THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE
…or: emphasis on ROD with COOLED ERECTION
　

鼠

ソ,ショ,ねずみ rat, mouse, rodent; high rate of breeding, population increase, children

　TRAPPED, MINCING MEAT with DRIP BY DRIP or ONCE and ONCE AGAIN with multiple GNAWING and with PENIS, TAIL
…or: CAVITY HAVING TWO SETS OF LIPS and TURGID-FLACCID PENIS, DRIP BY DRIP in MULTIPLE RAISED LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

ILLNESS, SICKNESS of RAT, MOUSE, RODENT
…or: DISEASE of CAVITY HAVING TWO SETS OF LIPS and TURGID-FLACCID PENIS in MULTIPLE RAISED LEGS

「Illness from rodents」that are known carriers of mycobacteria, and the Chinese believed, probably with good cause, that the infection was spread by a rat biting a human, or, sneezing hard (compare that with the Europeans who believed the bacteria was spread via vampire bites…). In most cases, a form of TUBERCULOSIS. However, non-tuberculosis SCROFULA lumps of infected lymph nodes can also result from mycobacterial infection:
「Most [tuberculosis] infections are asymptomatic and latent, but about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of those so infected. …One-third of the world's population is thought to have been infected with M. tuberculosis…about 80% of the population in many Asian and African countries test positive in tuberculin tests, while only 5–10% of the United States population tests positive. …When people with active pulmonary [tuberculosis] cough, sneeze, speak, sing, or spit, they expel infectious aerosol droplets 0.5 to 5.0 µm in diameter. A single sneeze can release up to 40,000 droplets. Each one of these droplets may transmit the disease, since the infectious dose of tuberculosis is very low (the inhalation of fewer than 10 bacteria may cause an infection).」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis 2013-09-08 ]
Remaining a HIDDEN and SECRET illness for most people as is vampirism, but be careful riding the subway, or flying in a crowded airliner since the vaccine wanes after about ten years…in 2020, SARS seems to be making a comeback in China after a decade or so.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: hidden; secret; scrofula
Japanese EDRDG: ill
Unihan extended: ill

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.