仯 short-term rental of a youth or child, to quarrel with a service provider, to quibble about pricing; the shape volume and area that only one object can possibly occupy, a small space 仈,亅,小,ノ,亻,少,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ソウ　･　ショウ　･　ビョウ　･　ミョウ
SO　U　･　SHO　U　･　BYO　U　･　MYO　U

Kun-yomi

ちい(さい
chi　i　sa　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

仈

ハツ,ハチ,× person spurting some sort of emission; a surname used in China

　PERSON with EMISSION
…or: VERTICAL ROD, RECIPROCATING MOTIONS and HEAD SLIDING with EMISSIONS
　

亅

ケツ,かぎ downward flowing fluid stream; barbed

　STREAM
　

小

ショウ,ちい,こ～,お～,さ～ relatively small condition; small stream of emissions; young, a minor; human mound; deeply felt

　STREAM of EMISSIONS
　

ノ

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

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

少

ショウ,すく,すこ something that ought to be stopped or infrequently performed, seldom, lacking, insufficient, young, short distance, short time, few, small amount, little by little

　SMALL YOUNG MONS, STREAM of EMISSIONS with SLIDING HEAD
…or: HEAD SLIDING below MONS with EMISSION STREAM above
　

Meanings of elements

PERSON SPURTING EMISSION and FLUID STREAM with HEAD SLIDING
…or: ROD HEAD with SLIDING IN, SMALL YOUTH MONS
…or: PERSON with LITTLE BY LITTLE, SOMETHING THAT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED

In dynastic China,「[v]iewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary…, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and their husbands took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977). In 19th century London the going price for a virginal, 12-year-old girl, of good background, was reported to be 400 pounds (Bullough, 1964).」
[ https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01 ]

External source definitions
...none located, and you ought to ask yourself, why not?
Definition speculated from combining the elements and from usage in other glyphs.

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.