桫 horse chestnut 杪,沐,氵,少,小,ノ,木,沙,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

サ
SA

Kun-yomi

へご
he　go

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

杪

ビョウ,ショウ,こずえ reach the limit, green tip of a woody shaft, green tree branch used as a whip, a switch, correcting misbehavior

　STREAMING within WOODY SHAFT EMISSIONS and with HEAD DECLINING, DAMMED FLOW
…or: WOODY STALK, STEM, WOODY with SOMETHING THAT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED
…or: WOODY and LACKING, INSUFFICIENT, SHORT DISTANCE, FEW, SMALL AMOUNT, LITTLE BY LITTLE
　

沐

モク,もく,あら bathe, cleanse, wash; to receive, to be given, to have conferred upon

　ROD in WASHING BY HAND
…or: FLUIDS with STALK, STEM, WOODY
　

氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

　emphasis on MANY DRIPS, DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS
…or: MANY TIMES DROPS
　

少

ショウ,すく,すこ something that ought to be stopped or infrequently performed, seldom, lacking, insufficient, young, short distance, short time, few, small amount, little by little

　SMALL YOUNG MONS, STREAM of EMISSIONS with SLIDING HEAD
…or: HEAD SLIDING below MONS with EMISSION STREAM above
　

小

ショウ,ちい,こ～,お～,さ～ relatively small condition; small stream of emissions; young, a minor; human mound; deeply felt

　STREAM of EMISSIONS
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

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
　

沙

サ,シャ,すな,よなげる granulated, raspy, not a smooth surface, gritty, sand, sandy conditions

　FLUIDITY with SOMETHING THAT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED, LACKING, INSUFFICIENT, SHORT DISTANCE, SHORT TIME, FEW, SMALL AMOUNT, LITTLE BY LITTLE
　

Meanings of elements

FLUIDS among A FEW WOODIES
…or: REACH THE LIMIT, TIP OF WOODY SHAFT, WHIPPING ACTION with FLUIDS
…or: BATHE, CLEANSE, HAVE CONFERRED UPON and IN A SHORT TIME, FEW, SMALL AMOUNT, LITTLE BY LITTLE
…or: WOODY with GRITTY RASPY SURFACE

The buds and branches of this plant are covered with a sticky fluid and strongly resemble a phallic shape, HORSE CHESTNUTS:「Aesculus seeds [buckeye and horse chestnut] were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about 4 millennia, until 300AD. Aesculus species are woody plants from 4 to 36m tall (depending on species), and have stout shoots with resinous, often sticky, buds…」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus 2012-08-03 ]
「Horse Chestnut Bud: The 'shine' on the bud is the sticky sap」
[ https://herbsociety.org.uk/kh-hedgerow-to-kitchen-horse-chestnut.htm 2012-08-04, with images ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: horse chestnut; Stewartia pseudocamellia (botany)
Japanese EDRDG: horse chestnut
Unihan extended: horse chestnut

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.