蒻 devil's tongue arum; kon'nyaku; voodoo lily, snake palm 芎,コ,ㄅ,弜,冫,艹,弱,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ジャク　･　ニャク
JA　KU　･　NYA　KU

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芎

キュウ,ク,× aromatic, stink, stench, bad odor, malodorous herb, Umbelliferae, Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort, Apiaceae

　EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS, STEMS with the ARCH OF A NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

コ

× HTML entity: コ bent until the two ends of something make contact or nearly so, something folded over onto itself, end-to-end, in-and-out, side-to-side, bent and folded in half

　CONTAINED, FOLDED OVER
　

ㄅ

× tension gasping taut spring-like action, unbound busted foot of dynastic China, painful stress

　ELASTIC POTENTIAL STRAIN ENERGY, FLEXIBLY BENDED AND SPRINGY, FLECTURE TENSION
　

弜

キョウ,ゴウ,つよ,つよいゆみ pair of disintegrated feet, strong distasteful odor

　ARCHED NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT FOLDED OVER END-TO- END (two, as a set)
　

冫

ヒョウ,こおり drip by drip; cooling process, congeal, change between two physical states, to freeze up, cease motion

　variant of TWO
…or: emphasis marker DRIP with HEAD SLIDING
　

艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり fucking, emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

弱

ジャク,よわ weak, to weaken or lessen; young, feeble, inferior; flight impossible

　a set of two BEND UNTIL THE TWO ENDS OF SOMETHING MAKE CONTACT OR NEARLY SO, SOMETHING FOLDED OVER ONTO ITSELF, END-TO-END, IN-AND-OUT, SIDE-TO-SIDE, BENT AND FOLDED IN HALF with COUNTER FOR BIRDS, CHICKS, BUNNIES AND CONEYS, PLUMES OF STUFF, CONCUBINE SERVICE PROVIDER IN TRAINING, WINGS, FEATHERS, TWO NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET WITH INNER DRIPPINGS
…or: COOLING PROCESS, LOWER TEMPERATURE, CONGEAL, CHANGE BETWEEN TWO PHYSICAL STATES, DRIP BY DRIP, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER, FREEZE UP, CEASE MOTION with STRONG ODOR, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT SET
　

Meanings of elements

STINK, STENCH, BAD ODOR, MALODOROUS HERB with DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
…or: TO WEAKEN OR LESSEN, FEEBLE, INFERIOR with EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS, STEMS
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS with two DRIPPING NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET

Plant used to make kon'nyaku called Amorphophallus konjac.「Emerging shafts」with「no-longer-integrated feet」…the single emerging central shaft (the spadex) from the single leaf of this plant resembles in many respects an erection appearing from within a prepuce or wrapping of skin. Lower elements of「weakened no-longer-integrated bound feet」are likely used here to represent the smell of this plant while blooming, not unlike「…rotting flesh and is probably the worst-smelling plant on earth.」
[ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1281570/Devils-tongue-arum-Worlds-smelliest-flower-blossoms-outdoors-UK-time.html 2013-07-10 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: young rush (Typha japonica), a kind of cattail; konnyaku (in Japanese cooking), solidified jelly made from the rhizome of devil's tongue
Japanese EDRDG: a kind of water plant
Unihan extended: rushes

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.