蝕 nibble away, erode, eclipse, tooth decay, caries, worm-eaten, occulting, eating a worm 𩙿,飠,虫,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショク
SHO　KU

Kun-yomi

むしば(む
mu　shi　ba　mu

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

𩙿

× HTML entity: 𩙿 eat, feed, food; eclipse by fully enclosing

　PERSON ALIGNING TONGUING MOUTH with TWO ROWS in RECIPROCATING VERTICAL MOTION
　

飠

× eat, feed, food; eclipse by fully enclosing

　PERSON with emphasis on CHEWING
…or: GOOD for PERSON
…or: PERSON'S ROD and OPEN-MOUTHED, LOOSE AND DRIPPING
　

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

Meanings of elements

EAT, FEED and WORM, CATERPILLAR, INSECT
…or: EATING, ECLIPSING a LOOSE DRIPPING ROD in MOUTH, ORIFICE

Elements need no further explanation other than occultation, which is one celestial body moving in front of another, such as the Moon eclipsing the Sun, or in Chinese, Yin covering Yang. Elements (other than as「worm eaten, eating worm」) are「eating, cover completely with mouth, eclipse」such as by completely surrounding something with one's mouth and cheek skin, with「orifice with loose and dripping short leg, snake-like」: describes one divine heavenly body (that of a service provider) occulting another deity (a client's appendage). Tooth decay is caused by the acidic excrement of bacteria after ingesting sugars when the bacterial excrement remains in contact with teeth for long periods, such as after falling asleep and not cleaning one's mouth. Semen is sweet and contains relatively large amounts of fructose, a sugar found in many fruits. In times past, service providers were encouraged to rinse their mouth after each meal and surely prior to napping between clients if a night was slow. Note that the Sun has never yet fully covered the Moon, i.e., Yang cannot fully eclipse Yin.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to nibble away at sth; to eat into; to erode
Japanese EDRDG: eclipse, occultation, be defective
Unihan extended: nibble away; erode; eclipse

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.