牡 males of an animal species; bolt of a door; key for a keyhole 牛,土,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ボ　･　ボウ
BO　･　BO　U

Kun-yomi

おす　･　お～　･　おん～
o　su　･　o～　･　o　n～

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

牛

ギュウ,うし cattle, herd meat asset, animal husbandry, beef meat, important thing, a cash cow, female animals providing milk and meat, animals as a store of future value and medium of exchange

　HEAD with TALENT
…or: HEAD on ROD VERTICAL TWICE
…or: HEAD with TWO HANDS
…or: PRONE and SCREWING
…or: ROD with HORSE
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

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

Meanings of elements

CATTLE, IMPORTANT THING and SOIL, FECES

「Head in two hands, prostrate and rod up repeatedly, head screwing repeatedly, important thing, chattel, cattle」with「soil, feces」as the MALE. Bolt of a door resembles the male member while penetrating an orifice, or goring something. Note that cattle do not normally gore soil, although pigs will root soil with the snout. Glyph is said to refer to the MALE OF A SPECIES, any species and not only cattle…if so, perhaps「head screwing repeatedly」with「rod in flesh seam」fits that general description of a male, a KEY, and possibly whatever HILL, MOUND in which the male member is inserted.「Cattle soil」more aptly describes low fecal MOUNDS deposited on soil by grazing animals, but not so much a larger hill. Note that no vocabulary is published using this glyph meaning「hill.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: (of a bird, animal or plant) male; key; hills
Japanese EDRDG: male
Unihan extended: male of animals; bolt of door

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?

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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.