蚣 centipede, animal with reproductive organs and appendages spewing venom in its feet 虫,公,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コウ　･　ショウ
KO　U　･　SHO　U

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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
　

公

コウ,ク,おおやけ a male animal, the aristocracy, duke; public, unbiased, governmental, collectively-owned, common ownership

　YOUNG TINY AND SCREAMING with TAUT
…or: STENCH CLOUD with EMISSIONS
…or: TENDER HEAD and TAUT
…or: HEAD LOOSE DRIPPING and LEASHED
　

Meanings of elements

SNAKE, WORM, CATERPILLAR, INSECT, LARVA, BUGS, PATHOGENS, CORKSCREW DEMONS with A MALE ANIMAL, THE ARISTOCRACY, DUKE, PUBLIC, UNBIASED, GOVERNMENTAL, COLLECTIVELY-OWNED, COMMON OWNERSHIP

As an「unbiased worm」(actually, an arthropod and not a worm), CENTIPEDES normally have the same number of legs on both sides, anywhere from 15 to over 150. CENTIPEDES also are「loose and dripping with emissions」from「both sides, both ends」having venom-injecting glands and body parts both just behind the head and on the tail:
「Forcipules are a unique feature found only in centipedes and in no other arthropods. The forcipules are modifications of the first pair of legs, forming a pincer-like appendage always found just behind the head. Forcipules are not true mouthparts, although they are used in the capture of prey items, injecting venom and holding onto captured prey. Venom glands run through a tube almost to the tip of each forcipule. …The final segment bears a telson [for venom injection] and includes the openings of the reproductive organs.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede 2013-09-14 ]
Reference to a GRASSHOPPER may simply be comparing the hind legs of the insect to the shape of no-longer-integrated feet, or, comparing the brown-black regurgitus it spits as a defense when harassed with a「dripping rod orifice of a male」after a bougie ream cleaning.

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

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.