朿 a prick, to prick, pricking; thorn, stab; tapered; painful condition 木,冂,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ
SHI

Kun-yomi

とげ
to　ge

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

冂

キョウ,ケイ,× widely spread legs, surrounding outer edge

　VERTICAL RECIPROCATING MOTION, ROD with TENSION TIGHT SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
　

Meanings of elements

WOODY INSIDE SPREAD LEGS
…or: TREE INSIDES

A shrub's or a tree's defense of THORNS inside branches at times prevent animals from getting「inside」the tree's structure. PRICK included in other glyphs as an element becomes 龶. CONTINUOUS PAIN AND BOTHER, the same as in English, a「thorny problem」or「you prick!.」
「Wood」drawn very large relative to being inside and「between spread legs」could also be an oversized「woody」causing the STABBING, PAINFUL CONDITION, an expression also used in vulgar slang English as well as when this element appears in various other glyphs. TAPER is derived from the shape of a prick head and THORN, not the shape of this glyph. STAB as well refers to a piece of wood, arrow, dirk, lance, spear or other tool penetrating flesh.

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

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.