処 deal with, treatment; the place, that place, that's the spot; damaged item; punishment, retribution; just now finished doing something; here and there; the parts of something 夂,几,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショ
SHO

Kun-yomi

ところ　･　～こ　･　お(る
to　ko　ro　･　～ko　･　o　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

夂

チ,しゅう to be delayed, late, slow progress starting and stopping, head in crotch of spread feet

　HEAD in CROTCH
…or: HEAD AND NECK WRAPPED IN NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT and OTHER SIDE TOO
　

几

キ,きにょう skin sheath, prepuce; stretched skin, skin that stretches significantly; how much? how many times? a place for your hand or arm, armrest

　CURTAIN with PENIS
…or: ROD SEGMENT within COPULATION
…or: ERECTION and THRUSTING FORWARD TAKING FLIGHT
…or: HAND with PENIS
　

Meanings of elements

SPREAD LEGS, HEAD in CROTCH with STRETCHED STIFF SKIN

「Head in crotch」or「spread feet」with「stretched, stiff skin」as a reference to THAT PLACE or to TREATMENT and HANDLING of, DEALING WITH a problem that is causing crotch skin to be uncomfortable, JUST NOW FINISHED DOING SOMETHING. THAT'S THE SPOT or HERE AND THERE, the PARTS OF SOMETHING after disassembly, or the SEVERAL PLACES where chancres have appeared.
　In Chinese,「tigress」is added (處) perhaps to mean the shaman's lair, the「witch and doctor」to whom folks went for medical care, with the elements literally as「peeling back the skin」first in order to fully expose the glans and retract the prepuce to reveal the DAMAGED SPOTS, and for TREATMENT and HANDLING of, DEALING WITH a problem. Contracting a sexually transmitted infection was likened to PUNISHMENT or RETRIBUTION for straying outside one's home, deserving of CONDEMNATION…or, was due to just some DAMN bad luck while getting lucky.

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: old variant of 處|处
Japanese: place, spot, scene, site, address, district, area, locality, one's house, point, part, space, room, whereupon, as a result, about to, on the verge of, was just doing, was in the process of doing, have just done, just finished doing, far from, anything but, not at all, let alone, to say nothing of, not to speak of, much less, to manage, to deal with, to cope with, to sentence, to condemn, to punish, here and there, some parts, several places
Unihan extended: place, locale; department
EDRDG: dispose; manage; deal with; sentence; condemn; act; behave; place

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.