扄 knocking, a knocker, knockers, banging for entry, knock knock knocking on heaven's door 吅,扃,′,启,宀,一,尸,戶,户,向,

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吅

× juxtaposed orifices, rowdy behavior; female-female relations

　multiple ORIFICES, MOUTHS
　

扃

ケイ,キョウ,ヘン,かんぬき,とびら barred from exiting or entering, locked inside, locked out

　REPEATEDLY BOBBING NARROW SPOT OF GENITALIA with ROD
…or: BUTTOCKS CRACK, DOORWAY, ONE'S FAMILY MEMBERS and VAGINA, CLOACA, AREA DIFFICULT TO ACCESS, REMOTE, DOORWAY TO NEIGHBOR
　

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启

ケイ,ひら anus; get started, to spread open and initiate engagement; enlighten, awaken to something new; explain how to do

　REPEATED HEAD BOBBING with STIFF ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT IN ANY DIRECTION, STRETCHED TAUT and with JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES, ROWDY BEHAVIOR
…or: THE DOORWAY, ONE'S FAMILY MEMBERS, BUTTOCKS CRACK with ORIFICE, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY, AN OPENING, APERTURE, VENT
　

宀

ベン,メン,× surround from above, deliberately out-of-reach, at home, roofed area

　SURROUND, COVERED ALL SIDES from above (marker)
　

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
　

尸

シ,かたしろ corpse, excretion squatting, buttocks

　MOVEMENT with ORIFICE
…or: ERECT with IN-AND-OUT
　

戶

× buttocks crack; the doorway; one's family members

　REPEATED BUTTOCKS
　

户

× this particular buttocks orifice; variant of the doorway, buttocks crack; one's family members

　marker above BUTTOCKS
　

向

コウ,む,～む,むこ,むか turn and face toward; well suited for, be inclined to

　emphasis on VAGINA
…or: ORIFICE within center of SPREAD LEGS, THIS IS THE POINT, THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE
　

Meanings of elements

FACING the DOORWAY
…or: BARRED FROM ENTERING with emphasis
…or: ANUS and DELIBERATELY OUT OF REACH
…or: DOORWAY, BUTTOCKS CRACK and TURN AND FACE TOWARD, SUITED FOR, BE INCLINED TO
…or: BUTTOCKS DOORWAY with emphasis on VAGINA

「Facing the doorway」in order to KNOCK upon the door, and in the old days that done by using the door KNOCKER.
A KNOCKER is something KNOCKING against something else.「To turn and face toward, be inclined to」another human being normally indicates chest-high level viewing, and may indicate cleavage of large mammary glands, i.e., KNOCKERS as is also the case in English slang, a heartfelt term to be sure. Glyph is another example that integrates concepts of heart, buttocks, and breasts (see 心). Upper and lower elements both indicate sites on a human body that may entail knocking or repeated pounding against, of some sort, from time to time.「Repeatedly inclined towards buttocks crack, the doorway」also suggests the repeated KNOCKING of two round objects contained in a scrotal sac against that doorway and/or its surrounding structures, as does「buttocks doorway with emphasis on vagina, orifice in spread legs」while recalling that in dynastic China the commonly accepted position for this sort of activity was with the person below to be kneeling and bent over forward, on all fours in the lordosis position as it were.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: large ring on a front door used as a knocker
Unihan extended: large ring on a front door used as a knocker

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.