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サ ・ シャ ・ サイ ・ スイ
SA ・ SHA ・ SA I ・ SU I
Kun-yomi
いつわ(る
i tsu wa ru

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Meanings of elements
FLUTES, FLOWER PETALS, RUFFLED, PLEATED GROOVE OR FURROW and HEAD OF ANIMAL OR PERSON, SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING with SITTING ON ONE'S HEELS
…or: EMERGING SHAFT with SITTING ON ONE'S HEELS and CROTCH HEAD
…or: FODDER and SPREAD FEET, HEAD CROTCH, BE DELAYED BY AN OFFER THAT CANNOT BE REFUSED, FULL ACCESS, RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
Note that「plants」neither squat nor pretend (but humans do), and the various elemental combinations describe both sexes. Either「fluted, flower petals」or「emerging shafts」combined with「squatting on heels, heels over head, delayed by a crotch offer that cannot be refused」depicts a situation that cannot possibly all refer to a single individual at one time (or, to grass), hence at least two persons are likely involved. TO SQUAT IN SALUTATION as a gesture of respect to someone else, realizing that a salute often involves the raising of a stiff arm in some way or another. What that is PRETENDING to be can be conjectured as「fodder and heels over head」(see 芻, also meaning「fodder」) while「squatting with spread legs」combined with all the other singular elements.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to squat (in salutation)
Japanese EDRDG: pretend, crouch
Unihan extended: pretend; crouch

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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