矴 anchor, grapnel, that place, anchored in place 一,丿,ノ,叮,石,丁,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

テイ
TE　I

Kun-yomi

いかり
i　ka　ri

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

丿

ヘツ,えい,よう straight up erect, quick jerking movement, stretched taut

　ERECT, FLING
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

叮

テイ,× stinger, sting; exhort or enjoin repeatedly, importunate; courtesy; sticking point, penetration spot

　ORIFICE, MOUTH and MALE ADULT ROBUST ROD STREAMING RAISED TO THE THIRD POWER
　

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
　

丁

チョウ,テイ,チン,トウ,ひのと male adult, blasting discharge from a barrel, robust, vigorous, flaming, butyl, cubed, raised to the third power, the ding in one's dong

　STREAMING from ROD
…or: ARRAY of UNPLEASANT BARBS
　

Meanings of elements

STONE, ROCK and ROBUST, VIGOROUS
…or: ROCKS of a MALE

A「robust rock」is one large enough to act as an ANCHOR.「Stone with vigor」is not a quality normally associated with stone or rock, but as the「stones, rocks of a male」「testicles and male, arrayed for streaming rod」these elements could represent a grabbing point, or GRAPNEL, particularly in close hand-to-hand combat. Testosterone, the hormone of「vigor」is formed in the testes, known colloquially the world over as「male stones, rocks」and the location of many short hairs on the scrotal sac where one might be grabbed and held, controlled, with expressions in English with this identical meaning:「caught between a rock [one's rocks, stones, testicles] and a hard place [the erect shaft]」refers to being grabbed by the crotch and unable to resist fight back, or decide how to proceed for the time being. And「got me by the short hairs」[or, the short and curlies, and so on…note however that Chinese don't normally grow curly pubic hair].
Furthermore, this same location above and around the scrotum was (and still is) an ideal location for securing restraints using a thin rope with high tensile strength as a means for safely transporting bound prisoners: to ANCHOR them in a line using a GRAPNEL (balls tightly bound in sac). No one can run off without losing his testicles, literally by tearing them off in a painful manner, as well as causing severe damage to those before and behind him. Hence, not many were will to attempt escape while so bound during transport. See 睪 and 尺.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 碇
Japanese EDRDG: anchor
Unihan extended: anchor; a place

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.