痰 phlegm, mucus, spittle, sputum 疢,火,疒,炎,

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疢

チン,× disease, bodily tissue inflammation, muscle aches, joint pain, enlarged lymph nodes

　FLUIDS covering DISCOURAGED, DEJECTED, BURNED
…or: emphasis on DRIPPING ERECTION surrounded by SKIN DISEASE, MANGE, SHEEP SCABIES
…or: ILLNESS, DISEASE, SICK, PHYSICAL AILMENT with HEATED, BURNING, ON FIRE FLAMING
　

火

カ,ひ,～び,ほ～ heated, in heat, burning, on fire, flaming

　IN PURSUIT of SERVICE PROVIDER, PERSON WHO MUST REMAIN SEATED
…or: EMISSIONS of MALE PERSON
…or: emphasis on TWO ERECTIONS JUXTAPOSED
…or: ERECTION TAUT and EMITTING
…or: ERECTIONS JUXTAPOSED with EMISSIONS
　

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
　

炎

エン,ほのお inflammation accompanying an illness, much burning, a burning sensation; two flaming together, glittering, dazzling, fiery; two buddies, spreading flames or inflammation

　ON FIRE AND BURNING (doubled)
　

Meanings of elements

DISEASE, BODILY TISSUE INFLAMMATION, MUSCLE ACHES, JOINT PAIN, ENLARGED LYMPH NODES and HEATED, IN HEAT, BURNING, ON FIRE, FLAMING
…or: ILLNESS, DISEASE, SICK, PHYSICAL AILMENT and INFLAMMATION ACCOMPANYING AN ILLNESS, BURNING SENSATION, TWO FLAMING, GLITTERING, DAZZLING, FIERY, SPREADING FLAMES OR INFLAMMATION

「Illness with inflammation」causes the body to produce more MUCUS as it attempts to cover the infected area:
「Phlegm is more related to disease than is mucus. Phlegm is a secretion in the airway during disease and inflammation. Phlegm usually contains mucus with bacteria, debris, and sloughed-off inflammatory cells. Once phlegm has been expectorated by a cough it becomes sputum.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegm 2013-10-30 ]
Elements as「illness with many hot erections flaming」also is suggestive of the overproduction of hot, sticky mucus-like fluids filled with pus and bacteria from an infection, that perhaps one might wish to expectorate rather than to swallow.

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

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.

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Japanese vocabulary: 10 entries

Chinese usage: 14 entries

Similar glyphs with related meanings: 35 entries