梓 catawba ('catalpa' [sic]), printing blocks, softwood 柆,十,木,立,十,䇂,丫,一,辛,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ
SHI

Kun-yomi

あずさ
a　zu　sa

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

柆

ロウ,× broken wood, bent wood, swollen woody

　TREE, WOOD and SWELLED, ENLARGED, ENGORGED
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

立

リツ,リュウ,リットル,た,～た,たて～,～だ standing erect, erection, to set up, in a standing position, preparations for subsequent use, establish, leading, swelled, enlarged, engorged, to get started

　emphasis on ROD, SEGMENT with SPURTING SHAFT STANCE
…or: CONTROL over SWELLED SHAFT
…or: PALMING, HEAD with ARRAY of ROD EMISSIONS
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

䇂

× sin, fault, a moral failing

　ERECTION SWELLED and VERTICAL MOTION
…or: HEAD with ROD in SEX SLAVE CROTCH
　

丫

ア,ヤ,ふたまた,あげまき female sex slave, split into two parts but still connected, bifurcated

　EMISSION with ROD, VERTICAL
　

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
　

辛

シン,から,つら,～づら,かのと suffering, difficult to do or endure, low-quality experience, painful torture, cause a person to cry out, bougie reaming needle, penis torture device, pungent, bitter, spicy burning sensation, pent-up rage, salty

　ONE, SEGMENT, ROD within SIN, FAULT, A MORAL FAILING
…or: UNDER CONTROL, COVERED HEAD, emphasis on ROD with SPURTING SHAFT PERCOLATING GUSHING HOT FLUIDS with SCREWING TWISTING NEEDLE
…or: emphasis on ROD with PROFIT MONEY, DESIRED YEARNING FOR, A YEN FOR, LONGING, TORTUROUS
…or: CONTROLLING ROD within FEMALE SEX SLAVE CROTCH
…or: PALMING ROD with SPLIT INTO TWO PARTS BUT STILL CONNECTED, BIFURCATED
…or: STANDING ERECTION with FILLED COMPLETELY, CLOSED HOLE, PLUGGED, BLOCKED, NEEDLE
…or: SWOLLEN with SCREWING
　

Meanings of elements

BROKEN BENT SWOLLEN WOODY with FILLED COMPLETELY FULL, ROTATE TWISTING, PLUGGED, BLOCKED, the NEEDLE
…or: TREE, WOOD and PUNGENT, BITTER, SPICY, DIFFICULT TO DO OR ENDURE, A LOW-QUALITY EXPERIENCE, PAINFUL TORTURE, CAUSE A PERSON TO CRY OUT, BOUGIE NEEDLE, TORTURE DEVICE

Wood from catawba trees is relatively soft, but this glyph is not necessarily only referring to the tree wood: the seeds of catawba trees grow in long, dangling brown pods that resemble large string beans or cigars to westerners, and perhaps to the ancient Chinese「needles, penises」in need of bougie reaming, hanging down from the branches. The light-yellow blooms strongly resemble a widely spread human vagina with the surrounding tissues. The wood itself has a straight grain and is easily shaped due to the relative softness, and was used to make both longbows and arrow shafts (see 矢).
　The soft wood was easily carved into wood blocks used for printing purposes. Carving wood, repeated pounding of printing blocks, making weapons, and genital shapes as constant reminders all relate to「woody torture.」The need to repeatedly wrap cloths (prior to paper-making days) around an infected brown and dripping softwood woody would cause the absorbed gleet and blood to create a pattern on the removed cloths, each similar to the other, not unlike creating a printed impression using a carved woodblock for printing: analogies abound, so use your imagination.

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: Catalpa kaempferi; printing blocks
Japanese: Japanese cherry birch, yellow catalpa, Japanese mallotus, printing block, catalpa bow, catalpa medium
Unihan extended: catalpa ovata
EDRDG: catalpa tree; woodblock printing

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.