樸 hackberry; bendable, pliable; naïve, easily deceived; plain and simple, unsophisticated 木,菐,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ボク　･　ハク　･　ホク
BO　KU　･　HA　KU　･　HO　KU

Kun-yomi

こはだ　･　きじ
ko　ha　da　･　ki　ji

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

菐

ホク,わずらわ tedious effort, thicket, woody area, thick and impassable, clustered woodies, big discharges while tupping sheep, difficulty harmonizing

　THICK BUSH, PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE, HIGHLY-SKILLED SERVICE PROVIDER and TWO-HANDED, BOTH HANDS SPREAD, GREAT, GRAND
…or: BUSINESS OCCUPATION, JOB TRAINING STUDY, MEANS TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY, EXPLODED HOLLOW SHAFT, GETTING SHAFTED and TUPPING SHEEP PERSON
…or: SERVICE PROVIDER BUSINESS and MANY
…or: BLASTING SHAFTS with SHEEP while TAUT
…or: BIG DISCHARGE of TUPPING PERSON
　

Meanings of elements

TREE with SERVANT
…or: WOODY with SLAVE, SERVANT
…or: WOODY with BIG DISCHARGE SHEEP TUPPING
…or: WOODY with DIFFICULTY HARMONIZING

「Tree」with「simple servant」who was uneducated, and easily fooled, it seems. EASILY DECEIVED as being「simple」often thought of as being stupid and therefore simple…however erroneous that thought may be. The Asian HACKBERRY tree, with its very SIMPLE, UNADORNED leaf structure, and PLAIN bark of some species that is quite smooth and if peeled from a tree, can and was used as a RUSTIC writing material during the age when hemp paper was only for the wealthy. The HACKBERRY tree, common throughout China, is valued for drought tolerance at which time the「tree leaves appear flaccid.」HACKBERRY lumber possesses extremely BENDABLE tolerance, again related to being relatively flaccid and not turgid. EASILY DECEIVED also stems from being extremely bendable (as is hackberry wood) to another's will or deceptions.
　As「woody flaccid」with right element as「erupting shaft while tupping ewe」normally resulting in a flaccid and BENDABLE state thereafter. Tupping ewes was also primarily a RURAL, RUSTIC pastime, since that is where sheep graze, generally.

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: plain and simple
Unihan extended: simple, honest; plain; rough
EDRDG: bark of a tree

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.