禁 incompetence, restricted, banned, forbidden, prohibited; warn against, [Chinese] to endure an incurable condition 木,柰,朾,林,示,

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キン
KI　N

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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
　

柰

ナ,ナイ,ダイ,いかん,からなし endure, to bear; endurance; sour apples; small tart red fruit, crabapple; no cure, no help possible

　WHAT CAN BE DONE? HOW CAN ONE HELP? with ROD
…or: WOODY with DISPLAY
…or: WOOD on SACRIFICIAL MEAT ALTAR
　

朾

トウ,ジョウ,テイ,チョウ,つ to bump into, to poke, prod, to strike with the end of a woody shaft

　TREE, WOODY and MALE ADULT, ROBUST, VIGOROUS, FLAMING
…or: WOOD, SCREWING EMISSIONS with ROD IN RECIPROCAL MOTION and STREAMING
　

林

リン,はやし tree grove, a cluster or grouping of similar trees of the same species; a member's circle of a specific group of people, a collection of similar things as a cluster of people

　TREE GROVE, WOODIES
　

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
　

Meanings of elements

WOODY with ENDURE, TO BEAR, ENDURANCE, SOUR APPLES, SMALL TART RED FRUIT, CRABAPPLE, NO CURE, NO HELP POSSIBLE
…or: TO BUMP with ROD, ARRAY of WOODY with EMISSIONS
…or: CLUSTER GROUPING OF SIMILAR WOOD, MEMBER'S CIRCLE OF A SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE with DISPLAYING INDICATIONS, SHOWING, MEAT SACRIFICE ALTAR, RELIGION
…or: TREE GROVE on ALTAR

「Circle of similar people」with「indicators displayed」and refers to PROHIBITED contact, RESTRICTIONS in place and an obvious WARNING SIGN as a result of showing INCOMPETENCE by bringing some disease or infection into the circle of members. An「added woody」with「red, incurable lesions」ought to be PROHIBITED from spreading that virus, BANNED from activities, FORBIDDEN participation due to the great risk of needlessly SPREADING THE FIRE to other wood.
Some have suggested a much less likely possibility,「wooded grove with altar.」…or, heaping「too much wood on the altar」will cause burning red embers to fall (like crabapples), is a great danger and a sign of INCOMPETENCE, therefore such practices were PROHIBITED except when ENDURED with special dispensation for festivals, and so on, when such RESTRICTIONS were temporarily lifted. It might also be true that anyone who can construct a bonfire from an entire grove of trees possesses some exceptional skill. Perhaps more reasonable is the warning and display of incompetence if an「altar」is constructed and set alight within a「grove of trees」due to the great risk of needlessly SPREADING THE FIRE to other wood, but that practice would not likely ever be endured or have the restriction lifted for any reason.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to prohibit; to forbid; to endure
Japanese EDRDG: prohibition, ban, forbid
Unihan extended: restrict, prohibit, forbid

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.