圕 reference works, codes of law, official records, educational publications, resource material, library 囗,書,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショ
SHO

Kun-yomi

としょかん
to　sho　ka　n

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

囗

イ,コク,× enclosure

　ENCLOSURE
　

書

ショ,か,～が,～がき document, writing a memorandum, to write, handwriting, patient medical history and records, written notes

　ROD UP inserted into HOLDING SOMETHING ERECT with TONGUING MOUTH
…or: WHAT FOLLOWS AFTERWARD with SPEAK
…or: IN-OUT END-TO-END, TWO ENDS OF SOMETHING MAKE CONTACT, FOLDED OVER with PRICK and HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING
　

Meanings of elements

ENCLOSURE and WRITING A MEMORANDUM, NOTE, LETTER, BOOK, DOCUMENT

Apparently, an abbreviation of written memo with illustrations (圖 and 書). Illustration (圖) uses elements of「enclosed, quarantined」「orifice in head, many times」that seems to suggest reaming the penile meatus with a bougie, with red-lined maps and other descriptive graphics and illustration materials posted publicly in order to educate the populace of dangers and danger zones, symptoms of infection, and so on. Official patient records were also mandated and stored for reference as a diagnostic resource, and to support the belief among government officials that the ill were in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: contraction of the three characters for 圖書館|图书馆 ; library
Japanese EDRDG: library
Unihan extended: library

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.