筀 bamboo 竹,圭,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケイ　･　ケ
KE　I　･　KE

Kun-yomi

たけ
ta　ke

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

竹

チク,たけ bamboo, bowing over, kowtowing, lordosis, flexible

　HEAD DOWN with PROSTRATE STREAM
…or: HEAD of ROD DOWN and HEAD OF MALE BLASTING DISCHARGE
　

圭

ケイ,× tapered jade items, perfect exterior, smoothed to perfection, impacted and compacted soil, butt plug, prepare [something] for a subsequent use, being on the 'higher ground' or jaded, situated above fecal matter

　GROUND, NIGHT SOIL upon more GROUND, NIGHT SOIL
…or: SCREWING with KING
…or: SCREWING ROD on NIGHT SOIL
　

Meanings of elements

BAMBOO and PREPARE FOR A SUBSEQUENT USE, BEING ON HIGHER GROUND, HARD COMPACTED SOIL, BUTTOCKS PLUG

「Bamboo, kowtow, bowing over in lordosis position」and「prepare for a subsequent use, butt plug.」Bamboo has some of the same characteristics as a buttocks plug:
「Unlike all trees, individual bamboo stems, or culms, emerge from the ground at their full diameter and grow to their full height in a single growing season…culms are ready for harvest and suitable for use in construction within about three to seven years. Individual bamboo culms do not get any taller or larger in diameter in subsequent years than they do in their first year, and they do not replace any growth lost from pruning or natural breakage.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo 2013-08-27 ]
Apparently, bamboo grows similar to inanimate butt plugs, and trees grow similar to woodies, penile erections.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: bamboo (archaic)

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.