蛤 clam; frog, toad, Anuran families 吅,厶,亼,虫,合,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コウ
KO　U

Kun-yomi

はまぐり
ha　ma　gu　ri

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

吅

× juxtaposed orifices, rowdy behavior; female-female relations

　multiple ORIFICES, MOUTHS
　

厶

シ,ボウ,ム,わたくし,ござ loosely dripping, odoriferous secret, private

　AMORPHOUS, LOOSE, POTENTIALLY ODORIFEROUS with DRIP
　

亼

シュウ,ジュウ,あつまる aligned assembly of [something] before [someone], person's rod

　PERSON with marker
…or: ARRAYED before a PERSON
…or: PERSON and ROD
　

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
　

合

ゴウ,ガッ,カッ,あ,～あ,あい～,～あい unite, conjunction, to close by joining together, consent, combine, fit together

　PERSON and ROD with ORIFICE
…or PERSON with ONE ORIFICE
…or: ONE PERSON with ORIFICE
…or: ERECT SLIDING TAUT ROD with ORIFICE
…or: IN FRONT OF PERSON is ORIFICE
　

Meanings of elements

JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES, ROWDY BEHAVIOR with LOOSE DRIPPING CLOUD and A LINE OF SOMETHING, TO ASSEMBLE AN ASSEMBLY
…or: LOWER LIFE FORM, TO HAVE A LOVER, A PARTICULAR UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERISTIC and with UNITED, CONJUNCTION, TO CLOSE BY JOINING TOGETHER, CONSENT, COMBINE, FIT TOGETHER, MATCH, JUXTAPOSE

A CLAM,「lower life form」with a shell having two sides that「fit together」nicely. Moreover, clams normally live juxtaposed in large colonies, reproducing by broadcast spawning, the release of eggs and sperm into the water seasonally, joining gametes of all sorts of physically nearby and biologically closely-related individuals in an incestuous display. A「worm with both sides joining together」within the shell halves. hamaguri live in brackish waters, mixed salt and fresh sources, where「both sides join together.」In Japan, hamaguri traditionally are eaten on 'girl's day' of March 3rd, perhaps due to their similarities, both being as 'juicy as a freshwater clam' and with fluted-shaped meat internally. How that relates to the elements「loose dripping orifice with consent, joining together, person's rod with orifice」is anybody's guess.
FROGS and TOADS unite,「join together both sides」orifice-to-orifice (both males and females possess a cloaca), mixing it up in clusterfucks:「loose dripping orifice and joined, combined, united, consenting」as a FROG or TOAD…not a reptile as are snakes, rather, an amphibian:
「In explosive breeders, the first male that finds a suitable breeding location such as a temporary pool, calls loudly and other frogs of both sexes converge on the pool. Explosive breeders tend to call in unison creating a chorus that can be heard from far away. …Mate selection and courtship is not as important as speed in reproduction. …At the breeding site, the male mounts the female and grips her tightly round the body. Typically, amplexus takes place in the water, the female releases her eggs and the male covers them with sperm. Fertilization is external.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog 2013-08-26 ]
Frogs and toads also hibernate during winter by burying themselves in muck, and clams do so most all the time.

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

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.