冲 pungent, rising, violent mixture of fluids and/or gases; clash, dash, smash against with powerful spurting upwards 丬,口,冫,中,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

チュウ
CHU　U

Kun-yomi

おき　･　おきつ　･　ちゅう(する　･　わく
o　ki　･　o　ki　tsu　･　chu　u　su　ru　･　wa　ku

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丬

× piece of stiff wood, a woody, support from beneath, deathbed, bier

　DRIPPING ROD
…or: CONGEALING ROD
…or: CHANGING STATE with a ROD IN RECIPROCATING MOTION
…or: SUPPORTED FROM BENEATH
…or: ROD CHANGING STATES
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

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
　

中

チュウ,なか,うち,あた to hit the 'bull's eye' while doing (something), middle, center, within, on the inside, among; two-sided, throughout; vulva, Mother China

　ROD in ORIFICE
…or: ORIFICE TOP TO BOTTOM
…or: ROD in JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES, ROWDY BEHAVIOR
…or: SCREWING in CAVITY
…or: SCREWING in SPREAD LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

PIECE OF HARD WOOD, WOODY, SUPPORT FROM BENEATH within ORIFICE
…or: DRIPPING ROD in ORIFICE
…or: ROD in DRIPPING ORIFICE
…or: BED, BIER with OPENING, APERTURE
…or: STIFFEN, CONGEAL, HARDEN, TWO PHYSICAL STATES, SOFT AND HARD, FREEZE, DRIPPING and HIT THE 'BULL'S EYE', WITHIN ON THE INSIDE, THROUGHOUT, VULVA, ROD in JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES

「Piece of hard wood」within an「orifice, or, mouth」「juxtaposed orifices」as POWERFUL SPURTING FLUIDS.
「Sickbed, bier」and「vent, opening」: sick congealed rods and/or sick bed-ridden orifices often release POWERFUL and PUNGENT odors, and also SPURT FLUIDS.「Congealed rod of woody with orifice」as an INFUSION of bacterial and/or viral pathogens in a MIXTURE OF FLUIDS from one to the other, or in both directions simultaneously.
「Congealed, change of state with vulva」: a taste or smell with a powerful, sharp, acrid sensation. Becoming violent, upsurge, clashing of a lord with a concubine due to leaving a bad taste in one's mouth or foul fishy odor. Lord (assumed as the left element) spurting at concubine (assumed as the right element), slamming hard into something with froth flying, and so on.
All the previous explanations do not seem too pleasant, so maybe the elements are simply depicting「flaccid to turgid then hitting the bull's eye smack in the middle of the vulva.」…then again「twice」「on both sides」might become a bit PUNGENT too, with FLUIDS MIXING, SMASHING and SPURTING…ad infinitum.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: powerful; vigorous; pungent; towards; in view of; thoroughfare; to go straight ahead; to rush; to clash; (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with
Japanese EDRDG: offing, open sea, rise high into sky
Unihan extended: soar; pour boiling water over

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.