耆 old man, senility, to grow senile, to behave as might a child after becoming aged 者,者,匕,老,曰,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キ　･　シ
KI　･　SHI

Kun-yomi

おい(る
o　i　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

者

シャ,もの HTML entity: 者 unnamed or nameless someone, a particular type of person, same kind of person, homosexual male, someone who is…, someone involved in…, long pause before continuing to speak about…, someone mentioned previously but not named again, an unnamed thing, marker for a command to perform…

　THAT HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAM with ROD, INDICATES EXTENT with BUBBLY BLACK, CONSPICUOUSLY BLACKENED AND FOAMY ORIFICE WHILE STARING IN A STUPOR, MENIAL SERVANT, USE OF SOAP
…or: BUNDLED WOOD WITH EMBERS BURNING, FAGOT (FAGGOT) with OPEN MOUTH CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE, STARING IN A STUPOR TONGUING SOMETHING
…or: THAT HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAM in FECES and HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: HEAD SLIDING ROD within RUNNING INTO ANOTHER FROM BEHIND
　

者

シャ,もの HTML entity: 者 unnamed or nameless someone, a particular type of person, same kind of person, homosexual male, someone who is…, someone involved in…, long pause before continuing to speak about…, someone mentioned previously but not named again, an unnamed thing, marker for a command to perform…

　THAT HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAM with ROD, INDICATES EXTENT with BUBBLY BLACK, CONSPICUOUSLY BLACKENED AND FOAMY ORIFICE WHILE STARING IN A STUPOR, SLAVE, MENIAL SERVANT, USE OF SOAP
…or: BUNDLED WOOD WITH EMBERS BURNING, FAGOT (FAGGOT) with OPEN MOUTH CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE, STARING IN A STUPOR TONGUING SOMETHING
…or: THAT HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAM in FECES and HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: HEAD SLIDING ROD within RUNNING INTO ANOTHER FROM BEHIND with emphasis on rod in orifice
　

匕

ヒ,さじ must remain sitting most of the time, device for scooping fluids, used for piercing or stabbing into

　REPEATED, BOBBING HEAD of PENIS
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL merged with PENIS
　

老

ロウ,お,ふ outdated, old age, bent over person, mature, experienced, sage, old fool, tough meat, incontinence, lacking normal voluntary control of excretory functions, lacking normal voluntary control of sexual restraint, unchaste, old man

　RESIDUAL, RESIDUE with both HEADS DECLINING and with DAMMED FLOW, REPEATEDLY BOWED HEAD
…or: HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY within BUNDLED WOOD SHAFT, OLD and WHO MUST REMAIN SITTING MOST OF THE TIME, SCOOPING FLUIDS
…or: PERSON SITTING and SLIDING in FECES
…or: HOMOSEXUAL MALE as SITTING PERSON, PENIS HEAD SLIDING
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

Meanings of elements

UNNAMED OR NAMELESS SOMEONE, LONG PAUSES BEFORE CONTINUING TO SPEAK with PERSON WHO MUST REMAIN SITTING MOST OF THE TIME, LAME, DEVICE FOR COLLECTING FLUIDS FOR A BRIEF TIME
…or: OUTDATED, OLD AGE, BENT OVER, MATURE, EXPERIENCED, OLD FOOL, TOUGH MEAT and TONGUE IN MOUTH, SPEAK HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING, CONSPICUOUSLY STARING IN A STUPOR

Elements describe an old man in various ways, with white hair, toothless mouth hanging open showing tongue only, and sitting or bent over most of the time. It was highly unusual for a man to live to be 60 or 70 years of age thousands of years ago: until around 1900, the worldwide normal human lifespan measured at birth ranged between 20-40 years, give or take, and if a male survived that long, he might then live to become about 60-65 years of age at death:「person with one leg in the grave (ground) and sitting most of the time talking with himself」or「person sitting and whacking bent penis repeatedly with bobbing head and tongue hanging out of mouth」behaving as might a child and unable to think of anything else, as SENILE.「Unnamed or nameless someone, long pause before continuing to speak」suggest losing one's memory,「device for collecting fluids」suggest incontinence or the inability to get up (「lame」) to find a proper place to urinate, and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: man of sixty or seventy
Japanese EDRDG: senility
Unihan extended: man of sixty; aged, old

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.