仢 footbridge, bridging a gap, using a foot gap; person ejaculating and contained in disintegrated foot meat; pillwood bridge, a round hard shaft of wood; running to an appointment with a star service provider 㐴,亻,勺,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ハク　･　シャク　･　チャク　･　テキ
HA　KU　･　SHA　KU　･　CHA　KU　･　TE　KI

Kun-yomi

まるきばし
ma　ru　ki　ba　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

㐴

× to seize, to pull and hold to oneself; to drag down and up

　SLIDING HEAD of ROD and SKEWED, SLANTING TO ONE SIDE, DIPPED, HEAPING TABLESPOON OF FLUIDS
…or: PERSON with EVENING ACTIVITIES
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

勺

シャク,× scoop, dipped, dip into, selected, small amount of fluids or 3/5 oz.

　HEAD and WRAPPED IN NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT emphasis marker within
…or: HEAD with CLEVER FEET
…or: PROSTRATE with STREAM emphasized
　

Meanings of elements

PERSON with SCOOP SELECTED AND SET APART
…or: ROD HEAD SLIDING with emphasis in WRAPPER, HEAD GASPING WITH NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT

There are three meanings apparent in ancient Chinese texts: one is to run to the stars (everyone will acknowledge this as an impossibility, unless "STAR" is a euphemism, which it is...see 星); another is to cross water (fluids) with a horizontal tree (woody shaft) as a BRIDGE; and the third is to make a reservation to keep an appointment with someone, such as might be necessary with a favored service provider.
The extended meaning of PILLWOOD (Japanese まるき, 丸木. See 彴) is a heavy hardwood for outdoor use, resistant to both rot and invading vermin. A bridge made of pillwood should stand a long time. The shape of a Chinese client engaging with a crushed foot is the BRIDGE that is bridging the gap between the two parties involved. See the various related glyphs that use this same analogy and refer to a BRIDGE.
The instep would have been used for stepping on the vines or rope used as the first BRIDGES. Purposeless motion may be the side to side swaying, or bounding up and down a bit. Loitering, dawdling, and hesitation might have been common also.

External source definitions
...none located, and you ought to ask yourself, why not?
Definition speculated from combining the elements and from usage in other glyphs.

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.