狷 timid and cautious; rash, impetuous, impulsive 犭,月,⺼,口,一,冂,曰,肙,

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犭

× canid (male dog or female bitch), pig, animal, beast

　HEAD REPEATED in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

月

ゲツ,ガツ,つき proceptivity; month; the Moon, lunar positions, lunar phases; mooning position, meat, meat phases

　ERECT in HIGH TENSION with TWO ORIFICES over-under inside SPREAD LEGS
…or: ERECTION DRIPPING in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT, TENSE GASPS
…or: A REASON FOR TONGUING MOUTH within SPREAD LEGS
…or: ROD within ORIFICE within SPREAD LEGS
　

⺼

× HTML entity: ⺼ body meat or flesh; meat of disintegrated feet; chicks and bunnies

　ERECTION and CLEVER with DROPS
…or: STIFF with CONGEALING and WRAPPED NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED BONES
…or: QUICK MOVEMENTS with FLEDGLING WING
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

冂

キョウ,ケイ,× widely spread legs, surrounding outer edge

　VERTICAL RECIPROCATING MOTION, ROD with TENSION TIGHT SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
　

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
　

肙

× larvae; to twist or screw, to empty, to surround; spinneret, meatus

　MEAT with AN OPENING, APERTURE
…or: ORIFICE and MEAT, CHICKS AND BUNNIES
…or: ORIFICE with TONGUING MOUTH within SPREAD LEGS
…or: ORIFICE and HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING, ROD WITHIN ORIFICE OR MOUTH within SPREAD LEGS
…or: the MERCHANDISE, GOODS are WITHIN SPREAD LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

CANID (MALE DOG OR FEMALE BITCH), PIG, ANIMAL, BEAST with TWISTING SCREWING UNTIL EMPTY, SURROUND SPINNERET OF MEATUS
…or: BEASTLY MEAT ORIFICE
…or: DOG or BITCH with LARVAE, GRUBS
…or: MEAT ORIFICE with a BEAST
…or: MEAT ORIFICE of a BEAST

Contrary definitions from external sources: seems to be referring to a reputation for beast-like RASH ravishing of a meat orifice in one way or another causing TIMID AND CAUTIOUS potential partners…or an actual skin RASH. TIMID AND CAUTIOUS of undergoing an extremely painful medical procedure, SHORT-TEMPERED and SNAPPING when asked about not keeping the appointment at the clap clinic. Perhaps locating a ripe carcass full of maggots, and either becoming TIMID, CAUTIOUS about eating it, or RASH, IMPETUOUS by IMPULSIVELY diving in without testing the smell first, or simply not caring.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: timid; cautious
Japanese EDRDG: short-tempered
Unihan extended: rash, impetuous, impulsive

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.