篠 thin-culmed dwarf bamboo, small bamboo species that do not shed their sheaths, a small woody sliver 筿,亻,丨,筱,木,枚,攸,竹,條,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ゾウ　･　ショウ
ZO　U　･　SHO　U

Kun-yomi

しの　･　ささ　･　すず
shi　no　･　sa　sa　･　su　zu

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

筿

ショウ,しの poked, strong intensity, heavy dripping; queue of brothel clients, dwarf bamboo, bamboo fibers

　multiple HEADS SLIDING and BUMPING INTO SPREAD FEET
…or: BAMBOO, BOWING OVER, KOWTOWING and SPLINTER, SMALL PART, LONG LINE, STRIPE
　

亻

× person, rod head

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

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
　

筱

ゾウ,ショウ,しの dwarf bamboo; diminutive in person's name, abnormally short and flexible shaft

　BAMBOO, BOWING OVER, KOWTOWING, FLEXIBLE and EXTREMELY, AT EASE, RELAXED
…or: FLEXIBLE BENDING ROD HEAD with RECIPROCAL MOTIONS while PROSTRATE AND STROKING, INCITING ACTION
　

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
　

枚

マイ,バイ,× peg, marching soldiers (as ridicule), used as a counter for anything thin and flat, pearl-like, pearly; classifier for medallions, rockets, satellites in orbit, flat round objects such as splats, and so on

　WOOD and WHACKED
…or: WOOD FORCED
…or: WOOD and PROSTRATE with CROSSING MOTIONS
　

攸

ユウ,ところ extremely [grammatical: forms an adverb] (with another glyph); extreme range; at ease, relaxed

　PERSON, ROD HEAD with VERTICAL RECIPROCAL MOTIONS and PROSTRATE STROKING, INCITING ACTION
　

竹

チク,たけ bamboo, bowing over, kowtowing, lordosis, flexible

　HEAD DOWN with PROSTRATE STREAM
…or: HEAD of ROD DOWN and HEAD OF MALE BLASTING DISCHARGE
…or: PERSON PROSTRATE with ROD and MALE HEAD BLASTING DISCHARGE, HEAD STREAMING AN ARRAY
　

條

ジョウ,チョウ,デキ,えだ,すじ long line, strip, stripe, legal text as paragraph article clause, things long and thin, muscle fiber, sinew, tendon

　EXTREME with WOODY
…or: PERSON LINE of MARCHING SOLDIERS
…or: PEARLY LINE from ROD HEAD
…or: PEG with WOODY SPLINTER and WHAT?! PERSON SPURTING SOME SORT OF EMISSION
…or: PERSON and ROD with WHACKING and SCREWING EMISSIONS, WOODY
　

Meanings of elements

ROD HEAD RECIPROCATING in FLATTENED SHEATH, SCABBARD
…or: PERSON with ROD as a SPLINTER OF WOOD
…or: EXTREMELY SHORT FLEXIBLE WOODY
…or: BOWING OVER, FLEXIBLE and THIN LINE, CLAUSE, SMALL PART

DWARF BAMBOO is a「splinter」compared to other species of bamboo, a WOODY SLIVER when compared to other species. Too short to be bent over in constant tension when mature and not very tall as are other bamboo varieties. Named「dwarf」because most species grow to a height of 30 cm or less (one foot), and those dwarf species that do mature taller (3 meters or so) have thin culms (root section at soil level), thin shafts, and thin stems. Generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths. Other bamboo species grow to lengths of 30 meters, about 100 feet or so and become sufficiently heavy to bend over in constant tension, with outer plants of a grove often bending flexibly and completely over, touching the plant head to the ground.

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: dwarf bamboo
Japanese: bamboo grass, generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths, thin-culmed dwarf bamboo, Japanese transverse bamboo flute, sliver, Sasamorpha borealis, shoots of this plant
Unihan extended: dwarf bamboo; diminutive in person's name
EDRDG: bamboo grass

Used within names (nanori)
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