痲 leprosy, numbness, measles, the pox, pock-marked 冫,麻,疒,𣏟,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

マ　･　バ
MA　･　BA

Kun-yomi

しび(れる
shi　bi　re　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

冫

ヒョウ,こおり drip by drip; cooling process, congeal, change between two physical states, to freeze up, cease motion

　variant of TWO
…or: emphasis marker DRIP with HEAD SLIDING
　

麻

マ,マア,あさ herbal fibers, hemp, cannabis, sacred Shintō paper, to lose feeling, to feel wasted stoned or fried

　WOOD, WOODY STALK in BED, EAGER TO KNOW, CURIOUS, NOSTALGIA
…or: emphasis on ROD with ERECTION and CANNABIS, HEMP, RISING LIBIDO, APPETITE INCREASE
…or: CAVE with many CANNABIS, HEMP PLANTS
　

疒

ダク,ニャク,ソウ,ジョウ,シツ,や illness, disease, sick, physical ailment, lying down

　BADLY BENT ERECTION with FLUIDS
…or: PALMING, CONTROL over DRIPPING with ERECTION
…or: CONGEALED in HAND and THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE
…or: emphasis on ROD with COOLED ERECTION
　

𣏟

× HTML entity: 𣏟 cannabis, hemp; rising libido, appetite increase

　PLANT, STALK, STEM, WOODY and HEMP HERBS, CANNABIS, PASSING TIME WITHOUT ANXIETY, SCREWING IN COPULATION
　

Meanings of elements

COOLING PROCESS, LOWER TEMPERATURE, CHANGE BETWEEN TWO PHYSICAL STATES, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER, CEASE MOTION with HERBAL FIBERS, HEMP, CANNABIS
…or: ILLNESS, DISEASE, SICK with CANNABIS

「Cooling, drop by drop, two states with hemp」or「illness needing much hemp」to relieve symptoms. Leprosy is actually caused by an upper respiratory infection (skin lesions are only one symptom), and smoking cannabis, an expectorant, causes spontaneous expulsion of phlegm from the lungs, along with some pathogens it must be assumed. Perhaps cannabis was ingested or smoked in dynastic China to relieve symptoms of leprosy,「illness and cannabis」as NUMBING. A characteristic of leprosy is that body parts drop off as the disease destroys tissue, blood circulation slows or ceases, and the parts「cool.」Hemp plants also drop leaves and branches from the bottom of the plant, the cool part out of direct sunlight, then progressively upward.「Illness of numbness」also describes a symptom of leprosy as appendages lose tactile senses and nerves are destroyed. This glyph is not「illness of multiple woodies」(痳) that refers to the burning symptoms associated while urinating with gonorrhea and flaming penis pain, the opposite of numbness.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: leprosy; numb
Japanese EDRDG: measles, paralysis
Unihan extended: pock-marked; leprosy; measles

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.