晾 to dry in the air, fan in the breeze, to give someone the cold-shoulder, ignore; expose to air, to bleach, hang and then ignore, gibbet 曰,京,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

リョウ
RYO　U

Kun-yomi

さらす
sa　ra　su

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

京

キョウ,ケイ,キン,みやこ human mound, unnatural mound, humans piled upon other humans, something really big, 10,000,000,000,000,000; capital city, metropolis

　PALMING, CONTROL of ORIFICE of SMALL YOUTH, STREAMING EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

SPEAK, SAY, TONGUING MOUTH and CAPITAL
…or: TONGUING MOUTH with PALMING ORIFICE of MONS with SMALL STREAM of EMISSIONS

「Speaking in the big city.」…maybe not too many folks in the big city have extra time to listen to other folks jabber, hence one meaning is TO IGNORE, or GIVE A COLD SHOULDER TO someone. AIR-DRY, FAN IN THE BREEZE and become COLD plainly refers to evaporation as a cooling process that reduces the temperature of something wet and placed in a breeze as it dries, and in the case of these elements,「tonguing mouth [panting or breathing hard, perhaps] palming orifice with stream emitted」that might describe a female during a selfie…or,「rod in mouth and palming head with stream emitted from orifice, mouth」that may easily have landed on the shoulder of a service provider below but was IGNORED, and that shoulder began to feel cold. Note that the left element seems formerly not related to sunshine that would warm whatever surface it touches, having the opposite effect of becoming cold. Air-drying while panting ceaselessly, however, agrees with these elements. Needless to point out perhaps is that the process of GIBBETTING will result in EXPOSURE TO AIR, DRYING OUT, and COLD MEAT that most folks would rather IGNORE, mostly due to the emitted stench.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to dry in the air; (fig.) to cold-shoulder
Japanese EDRDG: air dry, sun dry
Unihan extended: air-dry; sun-dry

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.