虱 louse, lice, blood-sucker, bug, parasite, lousy, vermin-infested, mites 口,吅,厶,中,丨,㇀,ー,虫,䖝,⺄,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シツ
SHI　TSU

Kun-yomi

しらみ
shi　ra　mi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

吅

× juxtaposed orifices, rowdy behavior; female-female relations

　multiple ORIFICES, MOUTHS
　

厶

シ,ボウ,ム,わたくし,ござ loosely dripping, odoriferous secret, private

　AMORPHOUS, LOOSE, POTENTIALLY ODORIFEROUS with DRIP
　

中

チュウ,なか,うち,あた to hit the 'bull's eye' while doing (something), middle, center, within, on the inside, among; two-sided, throughout; vulva, Mother China

　ROD in ORIFICE
…or: ORIFICE TOP TO BOTTOM
…or: ROD in JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES, ROWDY BEHAVIOR
…or: SCREWING in CAVITY
…or: SCREWING in SPREAD LEGS
　

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
　

㇀

× HTML entity: ㇀ head, sliding in and up

　HEAD SLIDING UP, HEAD IN
　

ー

× HTML entity: ー repeated, bobbing

　REPEATED BOBBING
　

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

䖝

× infestation, mites, scabies, pubic crabs, parasitic worms

　REPEATED, BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY with SNAKE, WORM, INSECT
　

⺄

× HTML entity: ⺄ thrusting laterally, taking flight, a "bird" in motion

　LATERAL MOTION of PENIS or TAIL
　

Meanings of elements

ORIFICE, OPENING, VENT of ROD with LOOSE DRIPPING CLOUD OF STENCH, RANCID ODOR and REPEATED HEAD BOBBING CONTINUOUSLY with THRUSTING LATERALLY, BIRD FLAPPING
…or: SNAKE, WORM, INSECT LARVA, BUGS, PATHOGENS, CORKSCREW DEMONS, LOWER LIFE FORM, HAVE A LOVER, A PARTICULARLY UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERISTIC with REPEATED HEAD BOBBING and TAKING FLIGHT
…or: INFESTATION with THRUSTING FROM SIDE TO SIDE, BENT ROD TAKING FLIGHT

[Elements vary by font] It may be either the insects or the humans, or perhaps both, that are taking flight. LICE eggs are called「nits」and the source for the English term「nitpicking」as one attempts to remove the eggs from one's follicles. Moreover, it cannot be denied that「orifice opening of rod with loose dripping cloud of stench, rancid odor and repeated head bobbing continuously with bird flapping」clearly describes a loose pecker flinging gleet in various directions as it moves along a pathway, indicative of an INFESTATION of the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae, as perhaps the genesis of anti-social distancing rules during pandemics.

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: louse; louse
Japanese: louse, lice, lousy, lice-ridden, covered in lice
Unihan extended: louse; bug; parasite
EDRDG: lice; vermin

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.