禄 one's fate or fortune, getting what is deserved in return for one's actions, what one pays regularly, payment or payback received regularly 示,礻,彐,⺕,水,氺,录,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ロク
RO　KU

Kun-yomi

さいわ(い　･　ふち
sa　i　wa　i　･　fu　chi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

示

ジ,シ,しめ show, display, reveal, indicate, apparent, altar for sacrificed meat, religion, to discipline, to demonstrate, exemplify

　TWO RODS, CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STATE with STREAM OF EMISSIONS, YOUNG MINOR, SMALL HUMAN MOUND, DEEP FEELING
…or: RECIPROCATING ROD with DOWN and STREAM OF FLUID with EMISSIONS
…or: ROD and MALE ADULT BLASTING DISCHARGE FROM BARREL with EMISSIONS
…or: SMALL STEPS with EMIT DOWNWARD
　

礻

シ,× show, display, indicate; altar for meat sacrifices, religion

　NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT DRIPPING VERTICALLY
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT with FLACCID ROD
　

彐

ケイ,× grasping pulled flesh, using a reaming tool, a bougie; euphemisms for a diseased penis: a swine's snout, pig's head, dog snout

　PULLED OUT OF NORMAL SHAPE or END-TO-END with HORIZONTAL MOTION
…or: DISEASED PENIS, SWINE'S SNOUT, PIG'S HEAD, DOG SNOUT (as euphemisms)
　

⺕

× HTML entity: ⺕ firmly grasping reaming with a bougie, inscribe, scraping the inner sides of [something]; the rule of law; snout euphemism

　RECIPROCATING LATERAL MOTION, ROD STALK OR STEM WHILE HORIZONTAL, INDICATES THE WIDTH OR EXTENT OF ANOTHER ELEMENT, ONE, SEGMENT within BENT UNTIL THE TWO ENDS OF SOMETHING MAKE CONTACT OR NEARLY SO, END-TO-END, IN-AND-OUT, SIDE-TO-SIDE or PULLED OUT OF THE NORMAL SHAPE
　

水

スイ,みず,みず～ water (unheated)

　TENSION and STREAM with SITTING
　

氺

スイ,× slimy viscous sticky fluid, spurting stream of emissions in all directions, gleet sputter or spatter

　EMISSIONS UP with UNFORGETTABLE DEEP FEELING
…or: COAGULATING STREAM OF EMISSIONS with SERVICE PROVIDER, SITTING PERSON
…or: STREAM of EMISSIONS with DROPS all sides
　

录

× inscribing, a hit, writing data, daily record of some occurrence, scraping a surface with a quill-like tool

　BOUGIE IN DISEASED PENIS, SWINE'S SNOUT, PIG'S HEAD, DOG SNOUT (as euphemisms) with STICKY FLUIDS
　

Meanings of elements

SHOW, DISPLAY INDICATION and GRASPING PULLED FLESH, USING A REAMING TOOL, DISEASED PENIS, SWINE'S SNOUT, PIG'S HEAD, DOG SNOUT (as euphemisms) with STREAM OF STICKY FLUIDS
…or: SACRIFICIAL ALTAR, RELIGIOUSLY SCRAPING A SURFACE WITH A QUILL-LIKE TOOL, A HIT, DAILY RECORD OF SOME OCCURRENCE

[Elements vary by font and positioning] in one sense, a STIPEND is being PAID REGULARLY WHAT ONE DESERVES as a result of actions, and a「display of ooze from one's pig nose」as regularly deserved after a visit to those caves o' wonder, the sacrificial meat on the shaman's sacrificial altar of divine offerings,「religiously bougie-reaming pulled out of shape with stream of sticky fluids.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: good fortune; official salary
Japanese EDRDG: fief, allowance, pension, grant, happiness
Unihan extended: blessing, happiness, prosperity

Used within names (nanori)
とし　･　よし

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.