縮 shrink, contraction, condense; curly, withered, wrinkled; diminish in size, crêpe, crepe 絈,㝉,亻,糸,宿,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シュク
SHU　KU

Kun-yomi

ちぢ(む　･　ちぢ(まる　･　ちぢ(める　･　ちぢ(れる　･　ちぢ(らす
chi　di　mu　･　chi　di　ma　ru　･　chi　di　me　ru　･　chi　di　re　ru　･　chi　di　ra　su

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

絈

バツ,メチ,ハ,ヘ,ハク,ミャク,ミュク,つつ to wrap a head with a covering, to cover the face, to cover by surrounding; to conclude a contract for services

　STRINGY THREADS, VARIOUS PENILE EMISSIONS, RAW FISHY-SMELLING STUFF IN THIN STRIPS and OPEN-MOUTHED CONSPICUOUS, WHITE, BLANK, EMPTY, STARING IN A STUPOR
　

㝉

× calm and peaceful; rather…, prefer… (used as a term of comparison), cause to stand, being within a vestibule

　DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH, AT HOME and ONE
…or: DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH, AT HOME with LATERAL RECIPROCATING ROD MOTIONS
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

糸

シ,いと stringy stinky and silk-like

　TINY SMALLEST YOUNGEST with EMISSION STREAM
　

宿

シュク,やど star cluster, forced to stay overnight, all through the night, inn, lodging, motel; special non-monetary perquisites offered by innkeepers to attract travellers; to be a parasite, becoming pregnant, quickie relief

　NOBILITY with a PREFERENCE
…or: PREFERRED by NOBILITY
…or: DELIBERATELY SURROUNDING AT HOME the ROD of ELDEST BROTHER
…or: CAUSE TO STAND, BEING WITHIN A VESTIBULE with ROD of ELDEST BROTHER, UNCLE
…or: SURROUND FROM ABOVE, DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH, AT HOME with THE BOSS, LEADER, CLAN CHIEF, VILLAGE CHIEFTAIN, MILITARY CAPTAIN, MANAGERIAL RANK, MANAGEMENT, MANAGER
…or: OUT-OF-REACH DELIBERATELY SURROUND PERSON with ROD and with TONGUING MOUTHS
…or: ROD HEAD DELIBERATELY with CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE HORIZONTAL ROD IN RECIPROCATING MOTIONS
…or: PREFERENCE FOR ROD HEAD with RECIPROCAL MOTIONS of OPEN TONGUING MOUTH
…or: UNDER ROOF SLIDING ROD HEAD A HUNDRED TIMES
　

Meanings of elements

CONCLUDE A CONTRACT FOR SERVICES with CALM AND PEACEFUL
…or: WRAP HEAD WITH COVERING, COVER A FACE, COVER BY SURROUNDING, WHITE PENILE EMISSIONS with DELIBERATELY SURROUNDING ROD IN LATERAL RECIPROCAL MOTIONS
…or: PERSON with STRINGY SPUN PENILE EMISSIONS, HUMAN CONNECTION, RAW FISHY-SMELLING STUFF IN THIN STRIPS with STAR CLUSTER, STAYING THROUGH THE NIGHT, INN, LODGING with TONGUING MOUTHS
…or: PENILE EMISSIONS of PERSON AT HOME with CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE ROD IN RECIPROCATING MOTIONS and HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, A PRETEXT, AN EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR ONE'S ACTIONS

「Person becalmed after completing the contract for white penile emissions」will CONTRACT, SHRINK, WITHER, CONDENSE, CURL.
Anything that is freshly harvested, such as「silk threads from cocoons」will tend to dry「throughout the night」and in the morning will appear SHRUNKEN and sometimes CURLY. The same can possibly be said of the male's penis if making「human connections」and hooking up for「one night only.」「Ejaculation, throughout the night」may occur more than once during these opportunities with a fresh partner, leaving the males CONTRACTED, SHRUNK, WITHERED, CONDENSED, CURLY and perhaps WRINKLED. Note that the CURLED part may not be noticed until a few weeks later, after gonorrhea takes hold. In Chinese, also meaning to「withdraw, pull back」perhaps as a result of the intense experience, but more likely due to a case of the clap. Gonorrhea has a tendency to curve and to shrink an infected penis due to scarring internal tissue unevenly, and one-night stands are a ready source of the pathogen as the Chinese discovered. Recall that the 'females of one's own home' were relatively 'safe, easy, and cheap' as an alternative (安).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation; also pr.
Japanese EDRDG: shrink, contract, shrivel, wrinkle, reduce
Unihan extended: contract, draw in, reduce

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.