芍 peony, water chestnuts, pain analgesic 艹,勺,

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シャク
SHA　KU

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艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

勺

シャク,× scoop, dipped, dip into, selected, small amount of fluids or 3/5 oz.

　HEAD and WRAPPED IN NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT emphasis marker within
…or: HEAD with CLEVER FEET
…or: PROSTRATE with STREAM emphasized
　

Meanings of elements

PLANT, STALKS, STEMS with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT, SCOOP

Plant with cup-shaped, bowl-like flowers and a strong scent (considered pleasant by most). The buds are always covered with sticky fluid, and the outer covering must be removed or peeled back prior to blooming (normally by ants seeking the sweet, sticky fluid). These traits resemble those of a bound and no-longer-integrated foot back in the day of dynastic China, as evidenced by the glyph elements. PEONIES are a traditional Chinese symbol of exchanges between lovers,「emerging shaft(s) with wrapped rod within no-longer-integrated foot」[Elements vary by font].
　「Plant with no-longer-integrated foot」also describes analgesic treatment for pain associated with foot-dis-integrating:
　「…[A] decoction of the dried root without bark of Paeonia lactiflora Pall. has been used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, hepatitis, dysmenorrhea, muscle cramping and spasms,…known as total glucosides of peony (TGP). …The analgesic effect of TGP was confirmed in various animal models of pain…」
　　[　https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108611/ 2021-08-24　]　

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: Chinese peony; Paeonia albiflora or lactiflora; see 芍陂
Unihan extended: peony; water chestnuts
EDRDG: peony

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.