薦 recommend, offering meat sacrifices, advise to take or do; bulrushes, rush matting 芦,艹,廌,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セン
SE　N

Kun-yomi

すす(める
su　su　me　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

芦

ロ,あし,よし bulrushes, cattails

　EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS, STEMS and BUTTOCKS CRACK
　

艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり fucking, emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

廌

チ,× one-horned beast, beast with a single horn, great righteous lawgiver, the Wind-God, the Unicorn

　BIRD-DEER-HORSE [merged], HORSING AROUND with EASY MEAT of BIRD
…or: ERECT over DRIPPING GROIN IN HIGH TENSION LONG TIME WITH GASPS AND MANY EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

BULRUSHES, CATTAILS with EMERGING SHAFT of the ONE-HORNED BEAST, THE SPIRIT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF BEING HUMAN

「Plant like a unicorn」depicts a BULRUSH, a type of grassy plant that appears to have a single horn as does the legendary unicorn. BULRUSHES that were woven into fine mats and spread before guests, used as seat cushions and wall hangings, and the idea of「suggesting that a guest be seated upon the bulrush mat spread before him or her」perhaps led to RECOMMENDATION, ADVISE. Bulrush mats are comfortable and provide seat ventilation for a person to remain drier, even in the hottest weather while the seated guest sweats, and so people are advised to use them as a good recommendation.
Some suggest this glyph refers to the「best grass」(so, this grass is RECOMMENDED) and was eaten by a mythical beast that was always happy, perhaps a sort of combination of a deer and a horse, known as qilin in China (note that all types of legends, stories and explanations abound, often contradicting other tales…needless to point out though is that ingesting the grass might have had something to do with the continual state of happiness). Some legends explain that qilin, the Chinese unicorn, only appeared with the arrival or passing of a wise sage, hence the meanings TAKING WISE ADVICE, RECOMMENDATION. Believing in the existence of this creature may have made one a fool in the eyes of others, much like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, or other quasi-religious figures, since the Japanese word for「fool, idiot」is a believer in「horse-deer」or unicorns. Note that descriptions of unicorns make the body horse-like, but with one horn that also make them deer-like…. You can figure out the sexual innuendo yourself for this one.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to recommend; to offer sacrifice (arch.); grass; straw mat
Japanese EDRDG: recommend, mat, advise, encourage, offer
Unihan extended: offer, present; recommend

Used within names (nanori)
こも

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.