柰 endure, to bear; endurance; sour apples; small tart red fruit, crabapple; no cure, no help possible 奈,丨,十,佘,木,示,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ナ　･　ナイ　･　ダイ
NA　･　NA　I　･　DA　I

Kun-yomi

いかん　･　からなし
i　ka　n　･　ka　ra　na　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

奈

ナ,ナイ,ダイ,いかん,からなし endure, to bear; endurance; no cure, no help possible; What can be done? How can it be helped?

　PROCEEDING TOWARD THE GOAL with TWO RODS inside
…or: CHANGING STATE within FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
…or: TWO HANDS at ALTAR
…or: TWO HANDS DISPLAYED WIDE APART
…or: BIG with RELIGION
…or: ROD within SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONCUBINES
…or: TWO FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

佘

シャ,× concubine name, service provider

　IN FRONT OF PERSON is MALE with EMISSIONS
…or: PERSON and SHOWN, DISPLAYED, DIVINE, RELIGIOUS
…or: IN FRONT OF PERSON is ARRAY of SMALL YOUTH
…or: PERSON and FLACCID-TURGID with STREAMING EMISSIONS
　

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

示

ジ,シ,しめ show, display, reveal, indicate, apparent, altar for sacrificed meat, religion, to discipline, to demonstrate, exemplify

　TWO RODS, CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STATE with STREAM OF EMISSIONS, YOUNG MINOR, SMALL HUMAN MOUND, DEEP FEELING
…or: RECIPROCATING ROD with DOWN and STREAM OF FLUID with EMISSIONS
…or: ROD and MALE ADULT BLASTING DISCHARGE FROM BARREL with EMISSIONS
…or: SMALL STEPS with EMIT DOWNWARD
　

Meanings of elements

WHAT CAN BE DONE? HOW CAN ONE HELP? with ROD
…or: WOODY with DISPLAY
…or: WOOD on SACRIFICIAL MEAT ALTAR

Maybe someone who ENDURES, BEARS the physical labor and heat of「placing wood on an altar」as some sources suggest, but that leaves out sour apples…. Also meaning CRABAPPLE TREE, that bears small sour red fruit requiring ENDURANCE to BEAR the taste.
「Woody displayed」or a「woody」that recently has「gotten religion」(or a dose of it, at least) at the shaman's shrine-temple as it relates to a tree covered with small, red bumps or spots that are difficult to endure or bear may refer to herpetic lesions or chancres euphemistically resembling crabapples, and was a good reason to start praying.
As an element, seemingly means「difficult to be rid of, cannot get away from」and both the herpes virus and the pox did stay with a person for the remainder of life, having NO CURE. Crabapples remain tart difficult to endure even after fully ripening, hence there is NO CURE for that sourness naturally. In that sense, one's wood will have been sacrificed upon the shaman's altar of love, while in the heat of the moment and「placing wood on an altar.」
Elements as「no help possible with rod」or「screwing in concubine」further the sour-apples meaning, but from different perspectives, naturally.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: crab-apple; how can one help
Japanese EDRDG: crabapple tree, endure, bear
Unihan extended: crab-apple tree; endure, bear

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.