性 sex, male or female; essence, characteristic, nature of; suffix -ness, -ity, etc. 忄,生,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セイ　･　ショウ
SE　I　･　SHO　U

Kun-yomi

さが
sa　ga

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

忄

シン,こころ profound heartfelt deep unforgettable feeling, rod with emissions, small emission stream

　EMITTED STREAM
…or: ROD EMISSIONS
　

生

セイ,ショウ,い,う,うま,うまれ,お,は,き,なま,なま～,む,～う life, alive, give birth, raw, not yet cooked, virility, prick head

　HEAD and PAINFUL CONDITION
…or: PRICK HEAD
…or: ARRAY of RED FLAG PULL-OUTS
…or: PRONE in NIGHT SOIL
…or: BEEF MEAT ARRAY
…or: MEAT ASSETS ARRAYED
　

Meanings of elements

SMALL YOUTHFUL STREAM OF EMISSIONS with HEAD OF PRICK
…or: DEEP FEELING of BIRTH, LIFE, RAW

The「deep feeling one is born with」as the ESSENCE, NATURE, CHARACTERISTICS, one's SEX as in being male or female for the majority of animals. The「deep feelings」of「life are sex and birth」since without it, life will eventually cease, and what else did early humans do for fun and recreation…is it coincidence that 'recreation' meaning fun exercise, and 'recreation' meaning to create again, are the same word?
　Note that the English term 'gender' was formerly a grammatical term for word declensions employed by some other languages (although, gender declensions are not used in English grammar), and was not used to designate a person's sexual identification until recent times when saying the word SEX right out loud became a 'dirty' thing to do. Elements individually are「stream of emissions and raw head of live prick」so there can be no doubt as to how the meanings relate to a human's ESSENCE, NATURE, CHARACTERISTICS, one's true heart: SEX.
　「Deep feeling, streaming emission」either with/from/and the「head of a prick」can describe either or both the male and female perspectives…and transsexuals, too it would appear.

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: nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence
Japanese: one's nature, one's destiny, custom, tradition, habit, that which does not change according to external influences, sex, gender, -ty, -ity, -ness, -cy
Unihan extended: nature, character, sex
EDRDG: sex; gender; nature

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.