巤 vibrissae, long and thick hairs surrounding a head, whiskers, bristles; tactile sensing, emotional state, hunting 巛,囚,メ,囗,口,レ,一,冫,乚,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

リョウ
RYO　U

Kun-yomi

たてがみ　･　もと
ta　te　ga　mi　･　mo　to

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

巛

セン,かわ extremely loose amorphous shape, potentially odoriferous

　LOOSENED, STUFF BEING FLUNG
　

囚

シュウ,とら capture, caught prey, snagged, prisoner, enslave, a catch, caught quarry, quarantined, isolated

　ENCLOSED PERSON
…or: MALE PERSON, TAUT ERECTION within ORIFICE
　

メ

× HTML entity: メ soft spot; become closed; weave, woven; fontanelle

　the HEAD with marker in center
　

囗

イ,コク,× enclosure

　ENCLOSURE
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

レ

× HTML entity: レ chew, masticate, bite; raised feet; mattock

　VERTICAL MOTION, ROD with HEAD UP AND IN
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

冫

ヒョウ,こおり drip by drip; cooling process, congeal, change between two physical states, to freeze up, cease motion

　variant of TWO
…or: emphasis marker DRIP with HEAD SLIDING
　

乚

イン,オン,かく,かか,よ appendage capable of spewing venom; concealed threat

　APPENDAGE CAPABLE OF SPEWING VENOM
　

Meanings of elements

many LOOSE with CAPTURE or with SOFT SPOT, WEAVING BACK AND FORTH with MOUTH ORIFICE, ENCLOSE and CHEW UP, MASTICATE, BITE, SEIZE BETWEEN TEETH, RAISED FEET WHILE SITTING, MATTOCK-SHAPED and with ONCE and ONCE AGAIN or DRIP BY DRIP, FREEZE UP, CEASE MOTION and CURLED, HIDDEN, CONCEALED, TAIL, PENIS

Describes VIBRISSAE, or the WHISKERS of a mammal that encircle the entire head of the animal, on mice and rats from above its eyes to under its chin, and the penis appendage (as ㇂ or 乚). These BRISTLY hairs are used for TACTILE SENSING anything near the animal's head(s), such as while HUNTING live prey in close proximity in complete darkness. Whisker positioning and movements INDICATE THE EMOTIONAL STATE of many animals:「Vibrissae (singular: vibrissa), or whiskers, are a type of mammalian hair that are typically characterised, anatomically, by their large size and large and well-innervated hair follicle. Functionally, they are generally understood to be specialised for tactile sensing…. Whiskers can be very long in some species. The length of a chinchilla's whiskers can be more than a third of its body length…. Even in species with shorter whiskers, they can be very prominent appendages…. Thus, whilst whiskers certainly could be described as 'proximal sensors' in contrast to, say, eyes, they offer a tactile sense with a sensing range that is functionally very significant. …[E]xperiments have shown that whiskers are required for, or contribute to: object localization, orienting of the snout, detection of movement, texture discrimination, shape discrimination, exploration, thigmotaxis, locomotion, maintenance of equilibrium, maze learning, swimming, locating food pellets, locating food animals, and fighting, as well as nipple attachment and huddling in rat pups」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskers 2013-09-09 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: old variant of 鬣
Japanese EDRDG: mane, bristles, as on a hog, dorsal fins
Unihan extended: a mane; bristles, as on a hog; dorsal fins

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.