賣 sell, show off, flaunt, betray 士,買,罒,四,員,儿,貝,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

バイ
BA　I

Kun-yomi

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士

シ,さむらい penis, engorged male peaking genital-man

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: ROD UP and ARRAYED
…or: ARRAY of SCREWING
　

買

バイ,か buy, purchase, incur, provoke, value highly, to hoard, netted fleshpots

　COPULATION, SQUATTING, BENT LEG MALE within MEMBER, GATHERED CLUSTER
…or: THE MERCHANDISE, FUNGIBLES, COMMODITIES, GOODS, QUALITY, GRADE, RANKING with WEAVING WITHIN SPREAD LEGS, SNARE, CLAPTRAP
…or: NETTED ARRAY OF ITEMS with WEALTH, MONEY, VALUABLE OUTER SHELL, FLESHPOT, VALUABLE EXTERNAL APPEARANCE and the AIM, GOAL, EYE ON EMISSIONS
　

罒

モウ,ボウ,あみがしら,よこめ netting, weaving within spread legs, snare, claptrap

　THE GOODS as ARRAY OF ORIFICES
…or: SPREAD LEGS with WEAVING INSIDE
…or: SPREAD LEGS with SPURTING STANCE
　

四

シ,よ,よっ,よん four, four-legged animals

　ENCLOSURE with COPULATING, BENT LEG
…or: COPULATION within ORIFICE
…or: counter for ANIMALS with RECIPROCATING ROD
　

員

イン,× member, person(s) of a group, gathered around, cluster, clustering

　FLESHPOT ORIFICE
…or: a WEALTH of ORIFICE(S)
…or: ORIFICE as WEALTH
…or: ORIFICE with AIM, GOAL, EYEING EMISSIONS
　

儿

ジン,ニン,がい squatting copulation with bended knees, not walking, the male

　ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT with PENIS
…or: STRAIGHT UP ERECTION with BENT PENIS
　

貝

バイ,かい wealth, money, valuable outer shell, fleshpot, valuable external appearance

　AIM, EYE ON GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: EYEING EXPERIENCE with EMISSIONS
…or: CENTER OF FLESHPOT with EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

PENIS NET for MONEY
…or: PENIS NETTED with FLESHPOTS
…or: PENIS NETTING and GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: PENIS with PURCHASES

Old glyph (also see 𧶠) meaning to SELL something, to OFFER FOR SALE. Top element is「penis, pride, put out」and the lower element is「buy」or to「net of/for fleshpot, wealth.」From the perspective of the seller as in displaying goods by「proud of 'putting out' for others to buy.」A「penis with netting」will be in the market for a「fleshpot, goal of emissions」who is SELLING services, since the obviously unhealthy condition tends to deter offers of freely-donated sex. And a「penis buying, purchasing services from a fleshpot」will most likely end up with a「poultice netting」cover for his genitals: BETRAYAL.
　In Chinese, meaning to「sell, show off, to flaunt, or to betray, treachery, sell-out.」「Ensnaring, snagging, netting penises for the fleshpot」a hooker hooking a client for a short-term rental as either pimping or prostitution, SELLING a service as the first profession and source of business (along with soothsaying). Being a「prick for netting money」seems to closely fit the mentality of some modern corporate sales departments.
　Modern elements of SELL are「penis surrounded with copulation」(売) as a client who has been SOLD prostitution services. Formerly, the center element was「copulation in orifice」(四), but in modern glyphs「netted, snagged.」BETRAYAL may have been related to a sell-out, or how one's daughter may have felt after her sale.「Penis with purchases」logically means that someone else was SELLING.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt
Unihan extended: sell; betray; show off
EDRDG: sell; betray; show off

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.