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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
チュウ
CHU U
Kun-yomi
なか ・ うち ・ あた(る
na ka ・ u chi ・ a ta ru

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Meanings of elements
ROD in ORIFICE
…or: ORIFICE TOP TO BOTTOM
…or: ROD in JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES, ROWDY BEHAVIOR
…or: SCREWING in CAVITY
…or: SCREWING in SPREAD LEGS
Depicts「rod」in the MIDDLE, AMIDST, AMONG「orifice」albeit elongated in all fonts that more closely resembles two orifices side-by-side, creating something that is TWO-SIDED. As it appears frequently on early pottery vessels that archeologists have identified with fertility rites, this glyph likely originated from depicting female genitalia, in particular the VULVA (see 鵠), JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES. Elements as「screwing in cavity」support these meanings as well, or perhaps as some have suggested,「screwing in spread legs」although admittedly the MIDDLE access point between the lower limbs is not one necessarily passing that rod through a vulva cavity in every case, the exception being the egress orifice of the alimentary canal that is not a cavity, per se. Nonetheless…
As the substituted abbreviation for a more complex glyph (𦰩) meaning CHINA, the 'mother of humanity' as it relates to sinocentrism, this element is the「birthplace, birth portal.」Note that in simplified Chinese, 'China' is now depicted as a「crotch flow」of some sort or another (汉). With some exceptions, most very early cave art depicts vulvas and bonobo-like humans filling orifices, and not diagrams of farming flat fields, hunting animals, or aliens and their spacecraft.
[ https://www.science.org/content/article/engravings-female-genitalia-may-be-worlds-oldest-cave-art 2023-05-17 ]
For other details regarding sex in ancient China and depictions of this glyph as VULVA (㕜, 盅, 肿 and so on)
[ https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat11/sub76/item132.html 2023-05-18 ]
Note that HITTING THE BULL'S EYE is closely related to scoring a hit on the spot where a bull's eye is focused generally, that is, on a cow's vagina as the goal, mark…his target. Perhaps the source of the English expression,「dead center」and was coined long prior to the machine age as a reference to public service providers. The TARGET on a dartboard resembles the eyeball of bull cattle only if removed from its eye socket, generally.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to hit (the mark); to be hit by; to suffer; to win (a prize, a lottery); within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right; China; Chinese
Japanese EDRDG: in, inside, middle, mean, center
Unihan extended: central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain

Used within names (nanori)
あたる ・ かなえ

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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