侍 attendant, to service, to wait upon, to care for another; samurai 仕,寸,付,士,土,亻,寺,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ジ　･　シ
JI　･　SHI

Kun-yomi

さむらい　･　はべ(る
sa　mu　ra　i　･　ha　be　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

仕

シ,ジ,つか a service provider, to provide service; serve, work for, one's job; to do (polite form)

　TEN MEN on ONE
…or: ONE with TEN MEN
…or: TOOLS with ROD
…or: PERSON with PENIS
…or: PERSON SCREWING with ROD, ONE, ARRAY
…or: ARRAY of TOOLS
…or: ROD HEAD SLIDING with MALE, PENIS
…or: TEN MEN with RODS
　

寸

スン,× squeezing grip, feeling the flow of fluids pumping, firmly holding above the elbow while measuring someone's throbbing heartbeat or pulse, ancient unit of measure (approximately an inch, 2.5 cm), careful hands

　ONE, ARRAY OF ITEMS, ROD HORIZONTAL with STREAM and emphasis marker below rod
　

付

フ,つ,～つ,～づ,～づけ,～つき,～づき hand over to; make a payment; adhere, attach; person squeezing something in a grip

　PERSON with SQUEEZING GRIP
…or: SLIDING ROD HEAD with FEEL OF FLUIDS PUMPING
　

士

シ,さむらい penis, engorged male peaking genital-man

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: ROD UP and ARRAYED
…or: ARRAY of SCREWING
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, clay, earth, ground, night soil, feces, manure, ordure, opium

　FULL SCREWING ARRAY
…or: ARRAY of RODS UP
…or: ROD within FLESH SEAM
　

亻

× person, rod head

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

寺

ジ,てら shaman's parlor, temple, government office

　PENIS with SQUEEZING GRIP, FEEL OF FLUIDS PUMPING
…or: GROUND, NIGHT SOIL with SQUEEZING GRIP
…or: OPIUM and SQUEEZING GRIP
…or: SCREWING ROD with SQUEEZING GRIP
…or: SCREWING ROD and emphasis on ROD STREAMING
　

Meanings of elements

A SERVICE PROVIDER, TO PROVIDE SERVICE, ONE'S JOB, TO DO (POLITE FORM) with SQUEEZING GRIP, THROBBING, CAREFUL HANDS
…or: PERSON, ROD HEAD SLIDING at TEMPLE
…or: MAKE PAYMENT for PENIS
…or: ROD HEAD SLIDING with NIGHT SOIL, FECES and with SQUEEZING GRIP, FEEL OF FLUIDS PUMPING
…or: HAND OVER, ADHERE, ATTACH, PERSON SQUEEZING SOMETHING IN A GRIP with PENILE ERECTION, ENGORGED MAN PEAKING, EVERY MAN, a GENTLEMAN

Original elements from China are「person」with「penis」(士) in a「squeezing grip」describing the SERVICING of clientele by temple/shrine service providers of the shaman, the seat of the first religion(s), brothels, gonorrhea treatment clinics, and bookkeeping services. Shaman's ATTENDANTS who were CARING FOR clientele, a person WAITING ON someone else.
　In Japan, right element sometimes appears as「person」and「soil」(土) with「squeezing grip」that is more suggestive of that particular orifice:「From religious circles [Buddhists], same-sex love spread to the warrior (samurai) class, where it was customary for a boy in the wakashū age category to undergo training in the martial arts by apprenticing to a more experienced adult man. The man was permitted, if the boy agreed, to take the boy as his lover until he came of age. This relationship, often formalized in a 'brotherhood contract,' was expected to be exclusive, with both partners swearing to take no other (male) lovers. This practice, along with clerical pederasty [religious teachers with young students], developed into the codified system of age-structured homosexuality…」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan 2012-07-02　]　
　SAMURAI normally SERVED a feudal lord. It is no secret that the majority of samurai engaged in sexual relations with their younger, male attendants ('page, squire' in English) and lords.「Service provider with a squeezing grip」available here…line forms at the rear, and we pride ourselves on service with a smile.

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: to serve; to attend upon
Japanese: warrior, samurai, man in attendance, retainer, to wait upon, to serve, to be, to humbly do …
Unihan extended: serve, attend upon; attendant, servant; samurai
EDRDG: waiter; samurai; wait upon; serve

Used within names (nanori)
かみ

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.