醋 vinegar, jealousy, envy, sour grapes, rival in love 晒,一,龷,酉,昔,

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晒

サイ,シ,さら,さらし to dry out, to bask in sunshine, to shine on, to expose and share one's experiences and thoughts, to bleach, to expose for all to see, expose to sunshine

　GLOSSY WET SHINY APPEARANCE, GLORIOUS FLASHING and COPULATION within MOUTH, ORIFICE
…or: SUN, DAY, BRIGHT FLASHING, BRILLIANT or TONGUING SOMETHING, SPEAK, HAVING A REASON TO, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING and with JAR, DRYING OUT, DRIPPING DROPS FALLING
…or: SPEAKING with TIPSY MOUTH
　

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
　

龷

× HTML entity: 龷 cooperating, buddy system, working jointly, both, piled one on top of another, layered

　two SOIL or UPWARD THRUSTING elements in close contact
　

酉

ユウ,とり cock, cocky, wine in jar, wine jar, bird

　TIPSY UNSTABLE STANCE on ORIFICE in LATERAL MOTION
…or: ONE COPULATING with ONE IN WINE JAR
…or: BALD ARRAY of ORIFICES
…or: ONE COPULATING with ROD SEGMENT, INDICATES WIDTH OR EXTENT in ORIFICE
　

昔

セキ,シャク,むかし in the beginning, former, long ago, antiquity; a decade

　COOPERATIVE, COOPERATING, PILED IN LAYERS with TONGUING ACTIONS, TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: PILED ON and DAY
…or: many people FOLLOWING SUBMISSIVELY PASSING THROUGH A GAP, TO OBEY, ENGAGE IN ACTIONS JOINING AN ACCESSORY with TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
　

Meanings of elements

BASK IN SUNSHINE, TO SHINE UPON, EXPOSE AND SHARE ONE'S EXPERIENCES AND THOUGHTS FOR ALL TO SEE with AN ARRAY OF ITEMS, ROD STALK OR STEM, INDICATES EXTENT in ORGIES, LAYERED BUDDIES
…or: COCKY, WINE IN JAR and IN THE BEGINNING, LONG AGO
…or: COCK with FORMER COOPERATIVE TONGUING ACTIONS

「Wine in the beginning but after a long time」(possibly) becomes VINEGAR. Vinegar starts out as wine, but if oxygen is permitted to interact with the yeast, then over time vinegar is produced instead of alcohol. Molecular structure is nearly identical, but vinegar (acetic acid) replaces a water molecule in the structure with an oxygen atom, something the yeast does naturally in the presence of Earth's atmosphere, starch, and water. Someone disparaging what was lost or cannot be had any longer, or literally sour grape. Cause of ENVY, JEALOUSY while listening to old tales of orgies related by a loaded drunk in the spotlight, or, due to an「old flame」火 (emissions of a person) resulting from「former cooperative tonguing actions with cock」who is now with another.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: vinegar; jealousy (in love rivalry)
Japanese EDRDG: vinegar
Unihan extended: vinegar; jealousy, envy

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.