磨 breaking the surface, abrade, to waste time, to insist, grind, file, chafe, scour, hone, polish 床,广,柘,𥓙,麻,石,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

マ
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Kun-yomi

みが(く　･　す(る
mi　ga　ku　･　su　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

床

ショウ,とこ,ゆか bed, floor, alcove (a place for beds); barber; eager to know, curious, nostalgia

　WOOD within CAVERN
…or: PALMING, CONTROL of ERECTION WOOD
　

广

ゲン,× widespread behavior of humans in caves, early human habitations, a cave of wonder

　emphasis on HAND
…or: PALMING, HEAD CONTROL of ERECTION
…or: emphasis on ARRAY of ERECTIONS
…or: emphasis on CLIFF
　

柘

シャ,ジャク,そ,つげ,やまぐわ Chinese mulberry (Cudrania), che; a thorny tree, pricks; sugarcane, sweet and syrupy

　TREE, PLANT, STALK, STEM and STONE
…or: WOODY with ROCKS
　

𥓙

× HTML entity: 𥓙 cluster of pricks

　WOODIES as SWEET AND SYRUPY, MANY PRICKS
…or: TREE GROVE, A CLUSTER OR GROUPING OF SIMILAR TREES OF THE SAME SPECIES, A MEMBER'S CIRCLE OF A SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE, A COLLECTION OF SIMILAR THINGS AS A CLUSTER OF PEOPLE and ROCKY OR ROCK-LIKE, STONES, ROCKS, MINERALS
　

麻

マ,マア,あさ herbal fibers, hemp, cannabis, sacred Shintō paper, to lose feeling, to feel wasted stoned or fried

　WOOD, WOODY STALK in BED, EAGER TO KNOW, CURIOUS, NOSTALGIA
…or: emphasis on ROD with ERECTION and CANNABIS, HEMP, RISING LIBIDO, APPETITE INCREASE
…or: CAVE with many CANNABIS, HEMP PLANTS
　

石

セキ,シャク,コク,いし rocky or rock-like, stones, rocks, minerals

　LATERAL MOTION, ROD and HEAD SLIDING or ERECTION with ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY
　

Meanings of elements

BED, EAGER TO KNOW, CURIOUS, NOSTALGIA and WIDESPREAD BEHAVIOR OF HUMANS with PRICKS, SWEET AND SYRUPY, a SUGARCANE
…or: IN BED with WOODY and STONES, TESTICLES
…or: CAVE, PALMING ERECTION with CLUSTER OF PRICKS
…or: HERBAL FIBERS, HEMP, CANNABIS and STONED

Describes the processing of the single most-useful plant in the history of human beings: separating hemp fibers from stalks to make clothing, rope, paper, etc. Hemp stalks are fairly sturdy, and stones were often used during the initial stage. The process of extracting fibers from hemp involved cutting down the very hard, stiff, turgid and sticky stalks of hemp, allowing them to lay in the field while retting to soften the outer hurds and become flaccid, and then beating the stalks to separate the fibers for making cloth, discarding the hurd byproduct as superfluous scrap. Traditional font elements of「hemp with stone」but modern fonts use「clusters of sticky pricks in cavern.」…both seem to indicate BREAKING THE SURFACE, ABRADE, CHAFE, SCOURING, HONE and so on. As「cannabis and stoned」or as「in bed with woody and testicles」the glyph means TO WASTE ONE'S TIME, WASTED, STONED as it does in English, too.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: grindstone; to grind; to turn round; to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist
Japanese EDRDG: grind, polish, scour, improve, brush (teeth)
Unihan extended: grind; polish; rub; wear out; a millstone

Used within names (nanori)
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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.