楸 catawba ('catalpa' [sic]), printing blocks, softwood 林,ー,ノ,禾,火,木,秋,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シュウ
SHU　U

Kun-yomi

きささげ　･　ひさぎ
ki　sa　sa　ge　･　hi　sa　gi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

ー

× HTML entity: ー repeated, bobbing

　REPEATED BOBBING
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

禾

カ,いね grainy, grain-like, encrusted, cereal grains, grain plants standing in a field unharvested, seeds on stalk tip, dried emissions, crusty gonorrhea gleet

　ROD DYING YOUNG
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD of WOODY
…or: THOUSAND TIMES with EMISSIONS DOWN
…or: PERSON with ARRAY OF ROD EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD and FILLED WITH SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD and BOUGIE NEEDLE EMISSIONS
　

火

カ,ひ,～び,ほ～ heated, in heat, burning, on fire, flaming

　IN PURSUIT of SERVICE PROVIDER, PERSON WHO MUST REMAIN SEATED
…or: EMISSIONS of MALE PERSON
…or: emphasis on TWO ERECTIONS JUXTAPOSED
…or: ERECTION TAUT and EMITTING
…or: ERECTIONS JUXTAPOSED with EMISSIONS
　

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
　

秋

シュウ,あき,とき a swing, swinging; autumn, the fall; the time of full maturity, late stages of full maturity, stage of decline

　GRAIN PLANTS with FIRE
…or: SEEDS AT STALK TIP and FLAMING
…or: GONORRHEA BURNING
　

Meanings of elements

CLUSTER GROUPING OF SIMILAR MEMBER'S with REPEATED HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY and with EMIT DOWNWARD; SPLASHING DOWN and with GRAINY, GRAIN-LIKE, ENCRUSTED, CEREAL GRAINS, GRAIN PLANTS STANDING IN A FIELD UNHARVESTED, SEEDS ON STALK TIP, DRIED EMISSIONS, CRUSTY GONORRHEA GLEET and HEATED, IN HEAT, BURNING, ON FIRE, FLAMING with WOODY STALK, STEM and A SWING, SWINGING, AUTUMN, THE FALL, TIME OF FULL MATURITY, LATE STAGES OF FULL MATURITY, STAGE OF DECLINE

Wood from catawba trees is relatively soft, but this glyph is not necessarily only referring to the tree wood: the seeds of catawba trees grow in long, dangling brown pods that resemble large string beans or cigars to westerners, and perhaps「tattoo needles, penises」to the ancient Chinese, hanging down from the branches. The light-yellow blooms strongly resemble a widely spread human vagina with the surrounding tissues. The wood itself has a straight grain and is easily shaped due to the relative softness, and was used to make both longbows and arrow shafts.
The soft wood resists rotting and was easy to carve into wood blocks used for printing purposes. Carving wood, repeated pounding of printing blocks, making weapons, and genital shapes as constant reminders all relate to「woody torture.」The need to repeatedly wrap cloths (prior to paper-making days) around an infected brown and dripping softwood woody would cause the absorbed gleet and blood to create a pattern on the removed cloths, each similar to the other, not unlike creating a printed impression.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Catalpa; Mallotus japonicus
Japanese EDRDG: Japanese catalpa
Unihan extended: mallotus japonicus, deciduous tree

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.