窕 quiet and secluded, modest, gentle, graceful and elegant, charming 宨,儿,丶,㓁,穴,兆,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

チョウ　･　⺕ウ
CHO　U　･　YO　U

Kun-yomi

うつく(しい
u　tsu　ku　shi　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

宨

チョウ,テワ,ほしいまま quiet and secluded, modest, gentle, graceful and elegant, charming; "I want it just like that"

　DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH with OMEN, SYMPTOMS OF PREGNANCY, SYMPTOMS OF INFECTION
…or: AT HOME and ERECT PENIS, COPULATING surrounded by STICKY FLUIDS
　

儿

ジン,ニン,がい squatting copulation with bended knees, not walking, the male

　ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT with PENIS
…or: STRAIGHT UP ERECTION with BENT PENIS
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

㓁

× netting, snare, claptrap, useless, extraneous, superfluous, redundant, unnecessary, exceeding what is necessary or natural

　SURROUND ON ALL SIDES and COPULATING, NOT WALKING, BENT LEG
　

穴

ケツ,あな pit, cavity, insertion point, hole with soil walls, anus, profitable area, slit, dwelling place

　emphasis on EXCEEDING WHAT IS NATURAL
…or: DELIBERATELY DIVIDED
…or: above COVERING ROLLED BACK with EMISSIONS
…or: AT HOME COPULATING
…or: emphasis on SNAGGED
　

兆

チョウ,きざ omen, symptoms [of a serious health condition, or of pregnancy]; trillions, a boatload

　BENT LEG, COPULATION, ERECT PENIS within EMISSIONS UP and DRIPPING DOWN both sides
…or: STICKY FLUIDS surrounding COPULATION
　

Meanings of elements

DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH of COPULATION with OMEN, SYMPTOMS OF PREGNANCY or SYMPTOMS OF INFECTION
…or: THIS IS THE POINT with SNARE, TRAP, PIT, CAVITY, HOLE and OMEN, SYMPTOMS OF PREGNANCY or SYMPTOMS OF INFECTION

Any reasonable person who「shows signs of infection」should REMAIN QUIET AND SECLUDED, and seek medical attention, of course. The first 12 weeks of pregnancy are the most uncertain, when the risk of miscarriage is greatest, and remaining quiet and not agitated with lower level of stress hormones in a mother seems to promote a healthier fetus.
「Stress experienced by a woman during pregnancy may affect her unborn baby as early as 17 weeks after conception, with potentially harmful effects on brain and development, according to new research. The study is the first to show that unborn babies are exposed to their mother's stress hormones at such an early stage in pregnancy. The findings, published in the journal Clinical Endocrinology, come after separate research on animals showed that high levels of stress in a mother during pregnancy could affect brain function and behaviour in her offspring, and other evidence suggesting that maternal stress in humans can affect the developing child, including lowering its IQ.」
[ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/may/31/childrensservices.medicineandhealth 2019-09-23 ]
After becoming pregnant, a concubine would not want to do anything else that might endanger her survival, becoming the perfect picture of charm when the owner/master happened by. And after becoming infected, a concubine would not want to do anything else that might endanger her survival, becoming the perfect picture of charm when the owner/master happened by.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: quiet and secluded; gentle, graceful, and elegant
Japanese EDRDG: quiet
Unihan extended: slender; quiet and modest, charming

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.