號 business establishment; long yell, cry out, signal, come and get it 号,虎,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コウ
KO　U

Kun-yomi

さけ(ぶ　･　よびな
sa　ke　bu　･　yo　bi　na

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

号

ゴウ,さけ,よびな symbol representing something else, pseudo-, surrogate, alias: a sign; number; long yell, cry out, signal; a business establishment, a horn

　ROD within ORIFICE of NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
…or: MOUTH in EXTREME CONDITION of LONG STRESS HIGH TENSION AND GASPS
　

虎

コ,とら savage, fierce, copulating tigress, drunk person

　TIGRESS COPULATION
…or: TIGER with STRETCHED CROTCH SKIN
…or: DIVINE PREPUBESCENT FEMALE, RAISED ROD SKIN ROLLED BACK of ERECTION with SERVICE PROVIDER in COPULATION
　

Meanings of elements

SYMBOL REPRESENTING SOMETHING ELSE, PSEUDO-, SURROGATE and SAVAGE, FIERCE, COPULATING TIGRESS
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH in EXTREME CONDITION of LONG STRESS and DRUNK PERSON

「Yelling as sign, signal」with「tigress copulation or drunks」as a LOUD CALL to anyone else within earshot that was YELLED to SIGNAL, as a SIGN to「come and get it」at a BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT. Yelling a NUMBER may refer to a specific service provider, or, a menu item. Depicts a「mouth of someone in extreme conditions of stress and gasps, with drunken person」or it could be the shaman announcing her new crop of meat is ready after completing their apprenticeship. Note that an actual tiger itself is not normally interested in revealing its position while hunting by stealth and surprising its prey, and that stalking prey while roaring is generally a poor strategy overall: glyph is referring to a human yelling a signal to other people, and not an actual tiger roaring as it hunts, contrary to what some sources suggest.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: ordinal number; day of a month; mark; sign; business establishment; size; ship suffix; horn (wind instrument); bugle call; assumed name; to take a pulse; classifier used to indicate number of people; roar; cry
Japanese EDRDG: mark, sign, symbol, number
Unihan extended: mark, sign; symbol; number

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.