只 [emphatic modifier of another word]; free; only just simply (something); now, the immediate past or present 口,ハ,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ
SHI

Kun-yomi

ただ
ta　da

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口

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

　ORIFICE
　

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

Meanings of elements

ORIFICE EMISSION (downward)

「Orifice that is emitting」or「orifice with emissions」is one that may have ONLY JUST recently been employed, or is NOW in use. With similar meanings expressed using English expletives as an EMPHATIC MODIFIER, based upon scatological or coital references (such as, 'holy shit,' 'oh fuck,' 'mo-fo,' 'fuckin'-a,' and so on and so forth ad nauseam).
　Elements of「orifice emission」perhaps formed the original glyph meaning「flatulence, fart.」Indicates FREE as in「no cost」for ONLY JUST a SIMPLE fart. Also used grammatically as an EMPHATIC MODIFIER as would be a fart, depicting what has JUST NOW been「emitted from orifice」since sooner than just now would be before the fart was released, and later would give the fart time to dissipate, so a fart is noticeable only a short while in most cases, fortunately. Appears to be the inverse of the upper portion of「barter exchange transaction」that normally requires adequate consideration to be exchanged, whereas most folks will offer you their farts freely, like it or not, and often inconsiderately at that.

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: classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc; but; only; only; merely; just; but
Japanese: ordinary, common, usual, free of charge, unaffected, as is, safe, only, merely, just, simply, but, however, nevertheless, absolutely
Unihan extended: only, just, simply
EDRDG: only; free; in addition

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.