俗 vulgarity, low class, popular, common, customary, customs, phenomena that change slowly over time, non-spiritual mindset 仈,𠆢,㕣,口,亻,谷,

注意：このページには、一部の読者にとって不快または不適切な内容が含まれている可能性があります。
Note: This page may contain content that is offensive or inappropriate for some readers.

MingLiU:

Mincho:

Gothic:

俗

Login Welcome!　Introduction
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.

On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ゾク
ZO　KU

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

仈

ハツ,ハチ,× person spurting some sort of emission; a surname used in China

　PERSON with EMISSION
…or: VERTICAL ROD, RECIPROCATING MOTIONS and HEAD SLIDING with EMISSIONS
　

𠆢

× HTML entity: 𠆢 person, a man, male adult

　PERSON
　

㕣

× wetland, marsh, muck within crevasse between hills

　COPULATION with ORIFICE
…or: ERECTION TAUT with ORIFICE
…or: DIVIDING, SPLITTING an ORIFICE
…or: EMISSIONS with ORIFICE
　

口

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

　ORIFICE
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

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

谷

コク,たに,きわ person's opened legs, V-shaped open space, an extreme situation, crotch, cleavage, valley, shape or form that contains; grain, corn; to be in a dilemma, to be at one's limit or the end, to be pissed, to be shat upon, situation of extremely poor quality

　EMISSIONS of PERSON'S ORIFICE
…or: PERSON among WETLANDS
…or: PERSON within BOG, MARSH MUCK
　

Meanings of elements

ROD HEAD and SPURTING SOME SORT OF EMISSION with PERSON'S ORIFICE
…or: PERSON EMISSIONS from V-SHAPED ORIFICE
…or: PERSON from VALLEY, AMONG WETLANDS

Individual elements depict a「person emitting from V-shaped legs orifice」and means VULGAR, LOW CLASS, COMMON, and what is CUSTOMARY and POPULAR naturally, perhaps referring to anyone who farts indiscriminately, or a male who urinates whenever the urge strikes, anywhere, anytime.
Right element as「valley」depicts rural, isolated, difficult to travel in or out and「people living in valleys」within the deep mountains were literally cut off from the rest of society for long periods, and considered backward, LOW CLASS, VULGAR, unstylish and CUSTOMARY, COMMON FOLK, hillbillies (in the U.S., Appalachian hill folk all named「Billie」for some odd reason), and so on, ridiculed since these folk were not living in the Big City.
Formerly, in rural settings way back in them thar hills, the only source of news was transmitted from person-to-person in the form of GOSSIP. Elements in this glyph could easily be read as「person」with「emitted from (another) person's mouth」in reference to gossip as a vulgar, low-class, and common but customary vice. Perhaps the glyph is subtly equating gossiping with indiscriminately passing flatulence, or pissing on another's reputation?

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular
Japanese EDRDG: vulgar, customs, manners, worldliness, mundane things
Unihan extended: social customs; vulgar, unrefined

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?

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 seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they 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 lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.