埠 port, wharf, pier, place to receive and discharge passengers and cargo 土,阜,

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Gothic:

埠

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

フ　･　ホ
FU　･　HO

Kun-yomi

つか　･　はとば
tsu　ka　･　ha　to　ba

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: RODS UP
…or: ROD within A FLESH SEAM
　

阜

フ,フウ,× abundant ubiquitous; soil mound, soil impacted into a mounded shape, terraced soil slope; orifices over-under in rotation; human backside, ample, numerous, a boatload

　A PARTICULAR SET OF ORIFICES with SCREWING
…or: FILLED ANUS
…or: HUMAN BACKSIDE with ROTATION
…or: PROCEPTIVE FEMALE POSITIONED for SCREWING
　

Meanings of elements

SOIL and upper of TWO ORIFICES OVER-UNDER IN ROTATION, HUMAN BACKSIDE

It may be difficult to associate the right element at times as a「twisting terraced slope」with a port, or in a port city, since port cities are not always located within mountain ranges or hills forming the shoreline. Clearly, while steep slopes near the ocean will normally create a deep harbor, this land configuration also might severely limit the available area for human settlements and city growth, so that a large port city normally is unlikely. On the other hand, sailors who had been at sea for some time may have been less interested in harbor depth and more interested in「soil screwing, filling backsides」during their port calls…see the related glyph 埗.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: wharf; port; pier
Japanese EDRDG: wharf
Unihan extended: port city

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.