印 tamp, press firmly; seal, stamp; sign, symbol; to make one's mark upon something, engrave, to leave an imprint, to make an impression 卬,一,ー,⺊,レ,卩,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

イン
I　N

Kun-yomi

しるし　･　～じるし　･　しる(す
shi　ru　shi　･　～ji　ru　shi　･　shi　ru　su

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卬

キョウ,ゴウ,のぞ,な,たか raise up one's body, sudden raising, leaping up, quick v-sits; raise one's head while hollering and excited; extremely alarmed; soaring through the air; expensive, high-priced; I me my, that's mine

　CONCUBINE FULLY BENDING OVER
…or: REPEATED LEG-RAISING with PERSON BENDING OVER
…or: REPEATED BITING by PERSON BENDING OVER
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

ー

× HTML entity: ー repeated, bobbing

　REPEATED BOBBING
　

⺊

× HTML entity: ⺊ hair-raising, prepubescent young girl, divine, cresting head, conditions when one's rod is raised

　UPRIGHT REPEATED BOBBING HEAD
…or: UPRIGHT with HORIZONTAL MOTION, ARRAYED
　

レ

× HTML entity: レ chew, masticate, bite; raised feet; mattock

　VERTICAL MOTION, ROD with HEAD UP AND IN
　

卩

セツ,わりふ kinked, bent; person bending over, kinky

　VERTICAL MOTION, ROD with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM with TENSION
　

Meanings of elements

RECIPROCATING LATERAL MOTION, ROD within SUDDEN RISE, LEAPING UP, RAISE ONE'S HEAD WHILE HOLLERING AND EXCITED, EXTREMELY ALARMED, SOARING THROUGH THE AIR, I ME MY THAT'S MINE
…or: REPEATED HEAD BOBBING with HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG GIRL DIVA, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED and with RAISED FEET and BENDING, KINKED, BENT, PERSON BENDING OVER, KINKY
…or: REPEATED, RAISED ROD, DIVINE HORIZONTAL MOTION and RECIPROCATING VERTICAL ROD MOTIONS with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT

Meaning to TAMP, packing into or down by a succession of blows…perhaps「horizontal motion」or「raised rod」placed inside a「lofty, high-priced, bent-over person (old form: 昂)」a service provider in the process of providing services and with one of several possible body parts being tamped repeatedly by a client, not the least of which would be displayed whilst she or he were「bent over」in position for TAMPING, creating a SEAL. Note that the Chinese meaning merges「divine prepubescent female, raised rod」with「high-priced, me」(卬).
Or perhaps TAMPING「repeatedly with a mattock on prepubescent girl, bent-over」to smash feet while level or horizontal as in the process of creating a service provider, the SYMBOL of that group of people being: no-longer-integrated feet.
Refers to PRESSING DOWN WITH FORCE such as when affixing one's personal SEAL or「chop」that is a name using kanji carved into ivory, soapstone, or hardwood that is first TAMPED into vermillion, thick and blood-colored (coincidentally?) powdered ore of mercuric sulfide, or cinnabar, and then PRESSED DOWN FIRMLY, used on official documents and contracts as equivalent to SIGNING one's SIGNATURE. The actual shape and strokes carved into the seal are often difficult to read, deliberately carved in a slightly strange shape so as to make everyone's seal unique and not easily counterfeited before the days of scanning and printing technology, but today rather obsolete. Means SYMBOL, since the SEALS were the SIGN and SIGNATURE that was SYMBOLIC of each person.
Make-believers say this is a「hand」(𦥑, ⺕) with someone「bent over」although for some reason the left elements are traditionally not drawn in the normal manner for「hand」instead using「repeating (upper and lower)」with「prepubescent girl」between, and「rod with no-longer-integrated feet」as it tamps away, happily oblivious.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image; abbr. for 印度
Japanese EDRDG: stamp, seal, mark, imprint, symbol, emblem, trademark, evidence, souvenir, India
Unihan extended: print, seal, stamp, chop, mark

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.