柳 willow; supple, bendable, willowy; pleasurable, pleasure; eyebrows 木,卯,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

リュウ
RYU　U

Kun-yomi

やなぎ
ya　na　gi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

卯

ボウ,モウ,う slit; ovaries; bunny rabbit, coney, hare; mortise

　ERECT inside REPEATED RAISED LEGS and BENT OVER
…or: ERECTION inserted in HIGH-PRICED
　

Meanings of elements

TREE like OVARIES
…or: WOODY with SLIT

「Tree」(or,「wood, woody」) with「ovaries.」…it should be noted, for some readers, that trees do not actually have animal ovaries in the biological sense, but that the flowers or blossoms of a plant do indeed function as a storage area of gametes. Elements resemble long drooping branches, repeatedly「bending up and down」(卩) as they sway in the wind. A WILLOW seldom loses all its leaves at the same time. Instead, the trees continually drop leaves throughout the year, as do the ovaries release eggs in human females. Note that most mammalian animals have an estrus cycle, and are not fertile year around as are human females. Examining the fundamental elemental meanings reveals a「woody with slit」that results in becoming slightly BENDABLE upon continuous entry and re-entry in wavelike motions resembling the wind in a willow, an all-around PLEASURABLE experience hopefully, and eventually the woody becomes WILLOWY after ejecting a deposit of male gametes. Reference to eyebrows is unclear based upon these elements, unless the woody stem or trunk is implanted somewhere between them, perhaps, and the face is flowing in wavelike, willowy motions. In Japan, the life of geisha and of prostitutes is terms the「willow world」for these reasons, with the left element as distinctly male, and the right as distinctly female in shape.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: willow
Japanese EDRDG: willow
Unihan extended: willow tree; pleasure

Used within names (nanori)
なぎ　･　や　･　やい　･　やぎ　･　やな　･　やない

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.