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  • Strokes: 16 ~ 15
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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ボウ ・ ミョウ
BO U ・ MYO U
Kun-yomi
いらか
i ra ka

Glyph elements  [ Toggle Font ]

Meanings of elements
CRESTED NET of SURROUNDING, COVERING TILES
…or: OBSCURED VIEW of TILES
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS with NETTING and SURROUNDED with JOLT, FIRED CLAY SLURRY, GIRL, YOUNG FEMALE, MEASURE OF ELECTRIC CURRENT, ROD SEGMENT with emphasis inside RAISED LEG(S) with THRUSTING FORWARD, BIRD TAKING FLIGHT
「Obscured view」with「tiles」depicting the「crested net of surrounding tiles」at the ROOF PEAK or uppermost ridge of a structure, an area that is「difficult to see, obscured from normal view.」Note that the crest roof tiles are tied with wire or rope to the interlocking tiles beneath, the lower tiles are not normally needed to be bound due to the interlocking design and simply the dead weight of the heavy tiles above them holding them down, but this is not true of the topmost tiles. Although in some earthquakes and typhoons these very heavy tile roofs sometimes collapse a home, it is not too often that individual tiles are blown away. Top portion of this glyph uses the same elements as「obscured view」and of「dream」indicating something「crested, raised」that is「netted on all sides」to something heavy beneath, in this case the top tiles to the lower tiles.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: rafters supporting tiles; ridge of a roof
Japanese EDRDG: roof tile, tiled roof
Unihan extended: rafters supporting roof tiles

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.


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Japanese vocabulary: 2 entries


Chinese usage: 3 entries


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