節 carnival ("eating meat"), moral integrity, segmented, bitten into segments of various lengths, node, joint, knuckle, knot; verse, stanza, section; seasons, time period, occasion; paragraph, text item; one's "hot dog" (as a euphemism) 竹,卽,皍,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セチ　･　セツ
SE　CHI　･　SE　TSU

Kun-yomi

ふし
fu　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

竹

チク,たけ bamboo, bowing over, kowtowing, lordosis, flexible

　HEAD DOWN with PROSTRATE STREAM
…or: HEAD of ROD DOWN and HEAD OF MALE BLASTING DISCHARGE
…or: PERSON PROSTRATE with ROD and MALE HEAD BLASTING DISCHARGE, HEAD STREAMING AN ARRAY
　

卽

ソク,ショク,つく,すなわち,もし promptly, on demand; approach, draw near to; namely, i.e.; as things are (or should be), agree with and conform to circumstances; accede at once, immediate, instantly, prompt to do

　MENIAL SERVANT, BUBBLY FOAM, BLACKENED SEX SLAVE, BLACK END or JUST ONCE, NEEDED ONLY ONE TIME, CLEAR INTENTIONS, ENJOYMENT, FEASTING ON EATING SEEDS, FRAGRANT ODOR with BENDING KINKED, PERSON BENDING OVER, KINKY
…or: OPEN-MOUTHED TONGUING SERVICES with BOWING PERSON
　

皍

ソク,つ,すなわ on demand; approach, draw near to; namely, i.e.; as things are (or should be), agree with and conform to circumstances; accede at once, immediate, instantly, prompt to do

　OPEN-MOUTHED, CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE, STARING IN A STUPOR and YOUNG DIVINE PERSON SITTING MOST OF THE TIME and BENDING, KINKED, KINKY
　

Meanings of elements

FLEXIBLE BITTEN ROD TIME AND AGAIN and KINKED
…or: BAMBOO, BOWING OVER, KOWTOWING and ON DEMAND, AGREE WITH AND CONFORM TO CIRCUMSTANCES, ACCEDE AT ONCE, IMMEDIATE, INSTANTLY, PROMPT TO DO

「Flexibly bent over」with「on demand, agree and conform to, accede at once」as a CARNIVAL, HOLIDAY, FESTIVE OCCASION, as would be「bowing flexibly with mouth-tonguing service provider bowing over, bent over fully」: to party, meat party. Honor and moral integrity likely referred to the dedication of service providers to their vocation (even though enslaved) and not the clients, generally.
　Inside bamboo that is naturally a hollow structure are sections that are sealed by NODES, or JOINTS, each approximately the same size and length of other adjacent sections. Therefore, the node serves to make each section「agree with and conform to」the others, and to stop「at once」any flow of water if used as piping, for example. Other extended meanings are to things conforming (such as, to the same length), or being CONTROLLED AND MODERATED: seasons (each the same length of three months), rope knots used to measure a ship's speed, verses in a poem or song, (roughly) paragraphs or bullet points in text, and so on. Another interpretation from Chinese is「bamboo that causes immediate conforming and agreement」due to the threat or actual whacking of someone's KNUCKLES, NODES, or JOINTS with a SECTION OF BAMBOO.
　INTEGRITY may refer to wholeness and being well-connected throughout, a sound structure with no weak points, which is of particular importance for woodies during FESTIVALS. In such cases, internal knots and nodes were a natural result of prior scarring due to infection.
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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: festival; holiday; node; joint; section; segment; part; to economize; to save; to abridge; moral integrity; classifier for segments, e.g. lessons, train wagons, biblical verses; see 節骨眼|节骨眼
Japanese: occasion, time, section, paragraph, verse, stanza, passage, principle, integrity, node, clause, knot, joint, knuckle, tune, melody, node in a bamboo stem, part, notable characteristic, characteristic way of speaking, space between two nodes, joints, points, to be moderate of, to save, to curtail
Unihan extended: knot, node, joint; section
EDRDG: node; season; period; occasion; verse; clause; stanza; honor; joint; knuckle; knob; knot; tune; melody

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.