筰 cable, braided bamboo strips 亻,笮,竹,作,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

サク
SA　KU

Kun-yomi

しゃく
sha　ku

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

笮

サク,シャク,せま roof slats, wood inside as support for interlocking fired clay

　BAMBOO and FIRST USE OF, SPREAD OR SPLIT APART, TO STAND ON END, ADZE
…or: FIRST USE OF, SPREAD APART in LORDOSIS POSITION
　

竹

チク,たけ bamboo, bowing over, kowtowing, lordosis, flexible

　HEAD DOWN with PROSTRATE STREAM
…or: HEAD of ROD DOWN and HEAD OF MALE BLASTING DISCHARGE
　

作

サク,つく,～づく to make and create fictions lies stories art or poetry, to feel, do by hand, to pretend, to harvest when ripe, to prepare for future use

　BENEVOLENT, HUMANE and PROSTRATED with ROD
…or: ROD HEAD SLIDING DOWN and FIRST USE OF, FIRST TIME FOR, WITHOUT WARNING, QUICK AND SWIFT
…or: CORE, KERNEL, INNERMOST PARTS with ROD HEAD DOWN
…or: PERSON and WITHOUT WARNING, QUICK AND SWIFT, FIRST USE OF, FIRST TIME FOR
　

Meanings of elements

PERSON with ROOF SLATS
…or: BAMBOO and TO MAKE AND CREATE, DO BY HAND, TO PREPARE FOR FUTURE USE, TO ORGANIZE
…or: BAMBOO with ROD HEAD and FIRST USE OF, SPREAD APART, HAIR-RAISING, TO BRISTLE, TO STAND ON END, GOOSEFLESH

Perhaps braided strips of green bamboo forming a cable. What the cable was used for is not explicitly stated in the given external definitions, but as a「support with person」it might be something that was used as a seat or harness, to tie down roof rafters and tiles, or even to tie someone to the roof rafters in order to restrict the ability to fight back or to escape. See similar glyphs for CABLE meanings that would apply to these elements as「person with first use of being spread in lordosis position」emitting braided strips in various colors.

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

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.