砥 a baffle; a whetstone; sharpen, to polish 一,ノ,呧,石,氐,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ　･　テイ　･　キイ　･　チ
SHI　･　TE　I　･　KI　I　･　CHI

Kun-yomi

と　･　といし　･　と(ぐ　･　みが(く　･　たいら(にする
to　･　to　i　shi　･　to　gu　･　mi　ga　ku　･　ta　i　ra　ni　su　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

ノ

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

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

呧

テイ,タイ,そし,しか vex, to rebuke, to scold, slander

　ORIFICE, MOUTH and LOW-CLASS, PEASANTS, PISSANTS, BARBARIANS, LOW
　

石

セキ,シャク,コク,いし rocky or rock-like, stones, rocks, minerals

　LATERAL MOTION, ROD and HEAD SLIDING or ERECTION with ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY
　

氐

テイ,タイ,シ,チ,ふもと foundation; on the whole generally; low-class commoners, peasants, pissants, barbarians; low-level, ground down

　CLAN LINEAGE above SEGMENT, WIDE ARRAY
…or: ROD of the CLAN LORD
…or: marker below the CLAN
…or: ENTRUSTING ROD with RAISED LEG
…or: TRUSTING a CHEWED-UP ROD
　

Meanings of elements

STONE, ROCK and LOW

A BAFFLE is used to deflect the movement of sound, light, fluids, rain and wind, such as might be placed at the entrance to a cave or hole carved into the side of a hill used as a dwelling. A BAFFLE stone is used for the purpose of diverting current flow in a harbor or river, placed as「low」as possible on the sea floor or riverbed, normally without having any function of support of a building or people. WHETSTONE also as a「low」function not for display or support, but constantly being ground as it sharpens blades, as are serfs being ground down by the lord.「Low-class with stone」is where the low-bred humans settled. Many of the caverns and caves in China have been formed from eroded sandstone, and that sandstone is used as sharpening stones, called WHETSTONE. Aristocrats no longer performed tasks such as butchering or slaughtering, and only the lower folk had any need to sharpen a blade, relegating these duties to the 'lower classes' of humanity.
　Sandstone is sufficiently soft to enable carving out pit-hole homes into the side of a hill. Seems like there are still an awful lot of pit hole homes in Asia today:「In north China, especially on the Loess Plateau, caves called yaodongs dug into hillsides have been the traditional dwellings from early times. The advantage of a yaodong over an ordinary house is that it needs little heating in winter and no cooling at all in summer. An estimated 40 million people in northern China live in a yaodong. Many people live in semi-recessed dugout houses in north-western China where hot summer and cold winters prevail.」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_house 2012-07-02　]　
　In ancient Japan:「The Early Jōmon is the first stage…of Japanese pre-history…[and] ranged from 10,000 to 300 BC…. This period saw a rise in complexity in the design of pit houses, the most commonly used method of housing at the time.」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dmon_period 2012-07-02　]　

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: baffle (pier); whetstone
Japanese: to sharpen, to hone, to whet, to grind, to wash, to scour, to polish, to burnish
Unihan extended: a whetstone; to polish
EDRDG: whetstone; grindstone

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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.