潟 salty brackish wetlands, lagoon, tide lands, creek flats, inlet or bay 氵,舄,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セキ
SE　KI

Kun-yomi

かた　･　～がた
ka　ta　･　～ga　ta

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

　emphasis on MANY DRIPS, DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS
…or: MANY TIMES DROPS
　

舄

シャク,サク,セキ,タク,かささぎ slipping, sliding in a foot; slipper; sole of a foot; sole of a shoe; crow, magpie

　CAVITY WITH TWO SETS OF LIPS, ANY SPACE BETWEEN BONES, PLACE FOR POUNDING AND GRINDING, TRAP, MORTAR, MINCING RAW MEAT and WRAPPED INSIDE AROUND, REAL OR ARTIFICIAL VAGINA, HIGH TENSION AND GASPING, HEAD AND NECK DANGER with MANY EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

FLUID with SLIPPING SLIDING IN A FOOT, SOLE OF A FOOT, CROW, MAGPIE, BUTCHERBIRD
…or: FLUID with CAVITIES IN TWO SETS, SPACE BETWEEN BONES, PLACE FOR POUNDING AND GRINDING, TRAP, MINCING RAW MEAT and WRAPPED INSIDE AROUND ARTIFICIAL VAGINA, HIGH TENSION AND GASPING, HEAD AND NECK DANGER with MANY EMISSIONS

「Flowing fluids with slipping and sliding in a foot sole」as SALTY or BRACKISH WETLANDS or periodic TIDAL FLOOD AREA. Depicts the BRISTLEHEAD bird, an animal with a mostly bare head covered in parts by bristles, or stubble, small projecting bare feather shafts. Related to the「crow, magpie, shrike, butcherbird」birds that attack mercilessly in large numbers called a 'murder' and eat anything they can kill. BRISTLEHEAD birds enjoy scavenging in TIDAL LANDS, MARSHES, WETLANDS, LAGOONS, LOWLAND SWAMPS as their habitat, and it seems that the bird as well as this glyph became associated with those areas, the muck and mud of a LAGOON, TIDAL FLOOD AREA, MARSH.
Frankly, SALTY MUCK CLAYLIKE STUFF is a perfect description of both feces and coagulated ejaculate, with the LAGOON reference perhaps as the colorectal region, and/or refers to the deep slits created in no-longer-integrated feet, respectively: a LAGOON is a shallow artificial channel such as would be used for the processing of sewage or storage of waste liquids.
SALTS were used to cleanse, dry, and disinfect the flesh seam resembling a vagina or an anus created by bending over the sole of each foot into a hairpin shape, and it requires little if any imagination to understand how this condition also applies to all the given meanings. Concubines and service providers used salts in the deep skin slits of their bound feet, a likely source of the English expression meaning to accept the bad along with the good but have some skepticism and reservations,「take it with a grain of salt.」Even only one single grain of salt remaining in the flesh seam of a no-longer-integrated foot would cause discomfort to a client.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: saline land; salt marsh
Japanese EDRDG: lagoon
Unihan extended: land impregnated with salt from the tide

Used within names (nanori)
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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.