勵 ability to survive, encouragement, incite, never quitting, urge on, sting, prick, goad, stimulate, strive, diligent 厂,勱,萬,厲,力,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

レイ
RE　I

Kun-yomi

はげ(む　･　はげ(ます
ha　ge　mu　･　ha　ge　ma　su

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

厂

カン,かりがね hand, cliff, curtain

　STRAIGHT UP and LATERAL
…or: ARRAY of ERECTIONS
…or: ROD ERECT
　

勱

バイ,メ,つと put forth effort, striving, thrusting forward movement

　TYPE OF CREEPING PLANT, MOSS, WOODY BRANCH ON SOIL, RADISH of LEGENDARY PRIMATE OF ANCIENT CHINA, EARLY HUMANS, UNPREDICTABLE BEHAVIOR, ERRATIC, HUMANS LATELY, PRIMATE WITH LEGENDARY LONG APPENDAGE IN SPREAD LEGS
…or: ONE'S OWN OFFSPRING with BUTTOCKS, RUMP, ANUS, TAIL and with FORCE, POWER
…or: TENS OF THOUSANDS, TEN THOUSAND, MYRIAD, UNCOUNTABLE APPENDAGES SPEWING VENOM with STRENGTH, EFFORT
…or: SCORPION POWER
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS of LEGENDARY LONG APPENDAGE IN SPREAD LEGS OF CHINESE PRIMATES with EFFORT, POWER, ERECTION in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

萬

マン,バン,よろず tens of thousands, ten thousand, myriad, uncountable appendages spewing venom; scorpions; rump with one's own offspring

　HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN GIRL, DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED, DEEP SHAFT with ONE'S OWN OFFSPRING and PLUGGED FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT ORIFICE of BUTTOCKS, RUMP, ANUS, TAIL
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS of UNPREDICTABLE PRIMATE
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS from PLUGGING ORIFICE and LOOSE DRIPPING STINK in SPREAD LEGS with LEGENDARY PRIMATE OF ANCIENT CHINA, EARLY HUMANS, ERRATIC, HUMANS LATELY
　

厲

レイ,ライ,レツ,レチ,といし,こす die hard, severe, strict, whetstone, grinding; to encourage an action

　CLIFF SCORPION
…or: HAND with EMERGING SHAFT from PLUGGING AN ORIFICE BETWEEN SPREAD LEGS, with STINKY LOOSE DRIPPING
…or: ERECTION with LATERAL RECIPROCAL MOTIONS and RUMP, BUTTOCKS, TAIL, ANUS of ONE'S OWN OFFSPRING
…or: TENS OF THOUSANDS of ERECTIONS ARRAYED
　

力

リョク,リキ,リイ,ちから force, power, strength, effort

　QUICK MOVEMENT IN ANY DIRECTION and TENSE FOR A LONG TIME WITH GASPING
…or: ERECTION through NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

Meanings of elements

HAND with PUT FORTH EFFORT, STRIVING, THRUSTING FORWARD MOVEMENT
…or: HAND with EFFORTS of TENS OF THOUSANDS, MYRIAD, UNCOUNTABLE APPENDAGES SPEWING VENOM, RUMP WITH ONE'S OWN OFFSPRING
…or: DIE HARD, SEVERE, STRICT, WHETSTONE, GRINDING, TO ENCOURAGE AN ACTION with FORCE, POWER, STRENGTH, EFFORT
…or: CLIFF SCORPION POWER

「Die hard power, effort」refers to EXTREME EXERTION or ability to remain alive, or ENCOURAGEMENT, INCITEMENT to not quit or give up.「Scorpions…living in high Asian mountains…can all survive winter temperatures of about −25 °C (−13 °F). In Repetek (Turkmenistan), there live seven species of scorpions…in temperatures varying from -31°C to 50°C (-24°F to 122°F). …They have a very efficient food storage organ and a very low metabolic rate combined with a relatively inactive lifestyle. This enables scorpions to survive long periods when deprived of food. Some are able to survive 6 to 12 months of starvation.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion 2012-11-23 ]
「Cliff scorpion stinging power」: scorpions prefer rocky cliffs and ledges for hiding and foraging. Nothing is more MOTIVATING that that which ENCOURAGES someone to add a bit of mud or mortar between the stones lining the sides of a pit home hole than a few scorpion stings, so as to limit their hiding places between the rocks. Although normally they are fairly docile, they do not prefer being rolled upon whilst you are asleep as they DILIGENTLY forage in your home pit at night. If so, you may be STUNG by a PRICK to GOAD you off of the animal. Then again, the abundance of scorpions in the caverns and cliffs may have been your MOTIVATION for digging the pit hole home in the first place.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to encourage; to urge
Japanese EDRDG: strive, encourage
Unihan extended: strive; encourage

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.