旬 10th day of 10-day period; in season, ripe merchandise or goods, produce with good color; estrus, in heat; all year; ovulation 勹,日,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ジュン　･　シュン
JU　N　･　SHU　N

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勹

ホウ,つつ wrapper, wrapping around

　HEAD SLIDING with HIGH TENSION AND GASPS in SKIN SLIT of NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET
　

日

ニチ,ジツ,ひ,～び,～か Sun, day, bright and flashing, brilliant, heat, hot

　CIRCLE DIVIDED
…or: TWO STACKED ORIFICES
　

Meanings of elements

SELECTED DAY
…or: SKIN SLIT INSEMINATION DAY

Today, applied to mean a TEN-DAY PERIOD, three per month as part of an ancient Chinese cycle, but this glyph more properly is describing the TENTH DAY OF A TEN-DAY CYCLE. The Chinese so-called「week」was ten days, less a day or two some months in order to remain aligned with the lunar cycle (related glyph).
Elements of「selected day」as RIPE, IN SEASON, and refers to EAT IT SOON as fruit or vegetables that are RIPE and harvested recently. Should taste best during this period, and have the BEST COLOR. Formerly, these elements represented when an animal was「in season」or「in heat」known as ESTRUS, the「selected day」for copulation and calculating ovulation. Note that the estrous cycle of many farm animals is an average of 20 days, or one ten-day period to ovulation as UTERUS DAY, or ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION DAY (the foot「skin slit」勹 element was used to represent the concept of「artificially inseminating」) and another ten-day period to the start of the next cycle. Counting and tracking these ten-day periods for each animal was important to farmers and herders.
Estrus occurs in different species during different seasons of the year, and for some polyestrous species such as cattle, the cycle continues throughout the year (hence, this glyph can also mean「all year」). When in estrus, an animal's vulva swells, reddens, and has the「best color for sex」which is also why「color」and「sex」are two meanings for one glyph (isn't that a vulva laid sideways as the opening of a skin slit?) and may also refer to EAT IT SOON.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: ten days; ten years; full period
Japanese EDRDG: decameron, 10-day period, season (for specific products)
Unihan extended: ten-day period; period of time

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.