蜆 bivalves, clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, cockles, and so on 哯,厶,虬,目,丿,虫,見,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケン
KE　N

Kun-yomi

しじみ
shi　ji　mi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

哯

ケン,は expulsion from an orifice, spitting, to disgorge, vomit

　ORIFICE, MOUTH, and LOOK AT, VIEW
…or: MOUTH ORIFICE as GOAL of COPULATION
　

厶

シ,ボウ,ム,わたくし,ござ loosely dripping, odoriferous secret, private

　AMORPHOUS, LOOSE, POTENTIALLY ODORIFEROUS with DRIP
　

虬

キュウ,ク,キョウ,みずち young dragon with horn, danger, bent and worm-like, penile pathogens, venomous

　WORMY PENIS
…or: SNAKE and PENIS
…or: PENIS with INSECTS
…or: LOOSE DRIPPING STINKY ORIFICE of PENIS
　

目

モク,ボク,め,～め,ま～ center of a fleshpot, goal, place where eyes are focused, intention, aim, contents, experience, favored, care, an item such as might appear on a menu of choices, eyes

　FLESHPOT CENTER
…or: CONTAINER of ORIFICES
…or: THREE ORIFICES in one container
　

丿

ヘツ,えい,よう straight up erect, quick jerking movement, stretched taut

　ERECT, FLING
　

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

見

ケン,み to appear, to see, to interview, looking, seeing, showing, viewing, to examine; eye on copulation, goal of copulating

　GOAL, AIM, FOCUS ON, EYEING COPULATION, BENT LEG
　

Meanings of elements

EXPULSION FROM AN ORIFICE, SPITTING, TO DISGORGE and with LOOSE DRIPPING STENCH
…or: YOUNG DRAGON WITH HORN, DANGER, PATHOGENS with CENTER OF FLESHPOT, GOAL, PLACE WHERE EYES ARE FOCUSED, INTENTION, AIM, CONTENTS of STIFF ERECTION STRETCHED TAUT
…or: SNAKE, WORM, PATHOGENS, CORKSCREW DEMONS with LOOK, SEE, SHOW, VIEW
…or: VOMITING with LOOSE DRIPPING STINK

「Cause of vomiting with loose dripping stink.」…anyone who ever has eaten a stinky raw oyster, clam, mussel or other bivalve will understand these elements, particularly after the bivalve's bacteria colonize the eater's gastro-intestinal tract and cause severe retching.
「Loose dripping orifice to look at」: bivalves are noted for「looking」like female genitalia, a「worm, snake-like, eyeing copulation」as what males are watching for. Yet, bivalves do not themselves possess eyeballs, it seems. Nevertheless,「The strengths of the senses will depend upon the type of bivalve you test but, in general, it is believed that touch is the most developed, followed by sight, smell, taste, then hearing. …Sight: Move your hand or another solid object over the bivalve, creating a shaded area, and observe or measure the reaction. [Hint: Some bivalves have primitive eyes, actually photoreceptors that can detect light and dark, as an anti-predator mechanism. Some bivalve eyes actually have lenses, but the degree to which they can 'see' in the way that humans can is uncertain.]」
[ https://bivalves.teacherfriendlyguide.org/index.php option: com_content: article2:bivalve-senses: catid: 44 Itemid: 150 2014-05-08 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Cyclina orientalis
Japanese EDRDG: fresh-water clam
Unihan extended: a variety of bivalves

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.