涉 to wade into, to become involved with, negotiating a channel, to be concerned with, to insert or enter into something slowly and mindfully, foot motions with fluid flowing, cross over from one side to the other 沚,′,亅,ノ,止,氵,步,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショウ
SHO　U

Kun-yomi

わたる　･　かかわる
wa　ta　ru　･　ka　ka　wa　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

沚

シ,なぎさ shoal, sandbar

　FLUID and HALT, STOP FURTHER MOVEMENT TEMPORARILY
…or: FLUID with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

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亅

ケツ,かぎ downward flowing fluid stream; barbed

　STREAM
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

止

シ,と,～ど,～と,とど,や,～や,よ,～さ foot-disintegrating procedure; stop further movement, finishing blow, to switch off, to concentrate upon and pay attention to, put an end to

　RAISED UP with ROD, VERTICAL MOTION
…or: DIVA with ROD UP
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL with flattened NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

　emphasis on MANY DRIPS, DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS
…or: MANY TIMES DROPS
　

步

ホ,ブ,フ,あるく,あゆむ,あゆみ alternately using one foot and then the other in order to progress to one's destination, motions with one foot at a time, a step, walk, pace or rate, stages of progress

　BRIEFLY HALTING with SHORT DISTANCE
…or: FOOT with SOMETHING THAT OUGHT TO STOP
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT with ROD or STREAM of PARTIAL EMISSIONS with HEAD SLIDING
　

Meanings of elements

SHOAL, SANDBAR with OUGHT TO BE INFREQUENTLY PERFORMED, SHORT DISTANCE, LITTLE BY LITTLE
…or: GRANULATED RASPY SURFACE, GRITTY SANDY CONDITIONS with STOP FURTHER MOVEMENT, PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION
…or: FLUID with MOTIONS WITH ONE FOOT AT A TIME, A STEP, ALTERNATELY USING ONE FOOT AND THEN THE OTHER IN ORDER TO PROGRESS TO ONE'S DESTINATION

Being on the lookout for dangerous SHOALS and SANDBARS, shallow gritty spots that stop movement for a time, NEGOTIATING A CHANNEL. Classically in Chinese meaning the same as 入(「head, or, erect」and「taut, the other side too」): to enter into, insertion, to put something into something else. Sandbars are places that permit WADING,「moving with one foot at a time within flowing fluids.」
　Perhaps the source of the English expression「getting your feet wet」by experiencing something for the first time, especially something that involves taking a risk as yet another Chinese expression brought back to England by the expelled opium-pushing drug lords.「Flow」after the「foot-dis-integrating process」with「head in up-down motion and sliding」that referred to a client ejaculating into the deep fold of a service provider's no-longer-integrated feet, a procedure that certainly resulted in GETTING [her] FEET WET…and perhaps his, too.
　Suggestive of crossing from one side to the opposite side (eventually using both feet, but only one at a time?), and NEGOTIATING one's way through the bone chunks. Sticking a head and neck between two sides of the skin fold as an INTERMEDIARY. Experiencing something while taking a risk, and so on and so forth (use your imagination).
　As depicted in erotic Chinese art, men in dynastic China masturbated by wrapping no-longer-integrated feet around an erect penis:「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17　]　

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 wade; to be involved; to concern; to experience; to enter (classical)
Unihan extended: ford stream, wade across
EDRDG: ford stream; wade across

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