坐 sitting on one's heels, punishing 从,工,丨,丿,乀,土,人,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ザ　･　サ
ZA　･　SA

Kun-yomi

すわ(る　･　おわす　･　そぞろに　･　まします
su　wa　ru　･　o　wa　su　･　so　zo　ro　ni　･　ma　shi　ma　su

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

从

ショウ,ジュウ,したが,より following submissively; passing through a gap; to obey; to engage in actions, joining; an accessory

　PERSON with PERSON
　

工

コウ,ク,グ,× closed seam of flesh; planning and skill necessary to perform a job, skilled worker with various woods; a trade

　CLOSED ORIFICE
…or: VERTICAL within TWO MODES, CHANGING STATE
…or: UPPER joining LOWER
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

丿

ヘツ,えい,よう straight up erect, quick jerking movement, stretched taut

　ERECT, FLING
　

乀

フツ,ブチ,ま stretched taut; leashed under control of another; the other side (of something)

　STRETCHED TAUT
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: RODS UP
…or: ROD within A FLESH SEAM
　

人

ジン,ニン,ひと,～り,～と person, a man, male adult

　HEAD or ERECT with TAUT, STRETCHED
　

Meanings of elements

PERSONS on SOIL, GROUND
…or: PEOPLE FOLLOWING ONE AFTER ANOTHER with NIGHT SOIL
…or: OBEDIENT ACCESSORY with LONG ROD IN FLESH SEAM

Multiple「people」on the「ground, soil」SITTING, SQUATTING or UNMOVING. Note that in Japan often still today, most all early humans sat upon mats or cushions laid out on the floor. The so-called 'proper sitting' posture in Japan is to sit with the buttocks on one's heels. Also means PUNISHING, TORTURE in Chinese, to FALL BACK FROM PRESSURE, to RECOIL as in literally setting someone back on his or her heels.
Note that a different glyph and concept is used in polite speech for sitting on something other than the ground or the floor (such as, while sitting upon a chair, 掛, or while rotating upon a pivot, 要). Old, polite Japanese speech used the term 'hang your backside' if sitting somewhere other than upon the floor and one's heels, but today this glyph has come to mean sitting most anywhere. Related glyph also depicts this same posture as: the「proper position」(是) for a divine someone having bound and no-longer-integrated feet with tonguing mouth in a female role, first kneeling and then sitting back upon one's heels.
Meaning TO BEAR FRUIT is possibly related to simply rocking forward into the lordosis position, raising the buttocks off of the heels and placing one's forehead, knees and elbows on the floor, and afterward thanking the lord after ATTAINING his deposit (or, literally reaching back while in lordosis and grasping his fruit to guide or hold it in). Concubines competed as bearers of heirs,「obedient with long rod in flesh seam」as a「taut erection (丿乀)」within one side or the other of the perineum…or both sides at once (see 満).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit; variant of 座
Japanese EDRDG: sit
Unihan extended: sit; seat; ride, travel by

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.