厲 die hard, severe, strict, whetstone, grinding; to encourage an action 厂,苗,禸,萬,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

レイ　･　ライ　･　レツ　･　レチ
RE　I　･　RA　I　･　RE　TSU　･　RE　CHI

Kun-yomi

といし　･　と(ぐ　･　こす(る
to　i　shi　･　to　gu　･　ko　su　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

厂

カン,かりがね hand, cliff, curtain

　STRAIGHT UP and LATERAL
…or: ARRAY of ERECTIONS
…or: ROD ERECT
　

苗

ビョウ,ミョウ,なえ,なわ～ one's own offspring, an offshoot, seedling, sprout

　PLANTS and RICE PADDY
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS with PLUGGING ORIFICE
　

禸

ジュウ,ニュ,あしあと buttocks, rump, anus, tail; leaving an impression in some sort of soil, pushing hard with a foot

　SPREAD LEGS and DRIPPING STENCH CLOUD, SHORT LEG
…or: SPREAD LEGS and VERTICAL MOTION with REPEATED DRIPPING
　

萬

マン,バン,よろず tens of thousands, ten thousand, myriad, uncountable appendages spewing venom; scorpions; rump with one's own offspring

　HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN GIRL, DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED, DEEP SHAFT with ONE'S OWN OFFSPRING and PLUGGED FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT ORIFICE of BUTTOCKS, RUMP, ANUS, TAIL
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS of UNPREDICTABLE PRIMATE
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS from PLUGGING ORIFICE and LOOSE DRIPPING STINK in SPREAD LEGS with LEGENDARY PRIMATE OF ANCIENT CHINA, EARLY HUMANS, ERRATIC, HUMANS LATELY
　

Meanings of elements

CLIFF SCORPION
…or: HAND with EMERGING SHAFT from PLUGGING AN ORIFICE BETWEEN SPREAD LEGS, with STINKY LOOSE DRIPPING
…or: ERECTION with LATERAL RECIPROCAL MOTIONS and RUMP, BUTTOCKS, TAIL, ANUS of ONE'S OWN OFFSPRING
…or: TENS OF THOUSANDS of ERECTIONS ARRAYED

「Cliff with scorpions」to mean DIE HARD, SEVERE, STRICT and in fact scorpions might eat only once every two years. Extended meaning of EPIDEMIC (cannot kill them all, they always keep returning by the「tens of thousands」). WHETSTONE is derived from the layered sandstone cliffs in which rock scorpions build dens, the harder varieties of these rocks used as whetstones to sharpen blades.
「Hand」with 「rump and one's own offspring, tens of thousands」to mean DIE HARD, SEVERE, STRICT as corporal punishment administered as discipline.「Array of erections, emerging shafts from plugged orifice loose and dripping short leg between spread legs, or, rump and one's own offspring」to mean DIE HARD, SEVERE, STRICT also will cause the SPREADING OF INFECTION, a WIDESPREAD EPIDEMIC that will cause sufferers to DIE HARD with some of the most SEVERE symptoms and pain imaginable. Meaning of WHETSTONE results from grinding back and forth in the same spot a long time while coated with clay slurry, night soil, or while sharpening one's tool or weapon. Whetstones also were used for sanding or sharpening a tapered spear tip by rubbing the surface repeatedly with a back and forth, reciprocating motion, as might appear「a myriad of erections in motion.」Anciently, a Chinese euphemism to replace anal coitus in politer conversations refers to that as a sort of gritty, sandy grinding: TO ENCOURAGE AN ACTION by keeping one's tool sharp:「erection with reciprocating motions and rump of one's own offspring」in DIE HARD, SEVERE, STRICT dynastic China, again perhaps as corporal punishment administered as discipline.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: strict; severe
Japanese EDRDG: whetstone, grind, sharpen, whet, encourage
Unihan extended: whetstone; grind, sharpen; whet

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.