簦 widely spread, inviting customers, large umbrella, invitation to come underneath 竹,登,

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簦

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

トウ
TO　U

Kun-yomi

かさ
ka　sa

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

竹

チク,たけ bamboo, bowing over, kowtowing, lordosis, flexible

　HEAD DOWN with PROSTRATE STREAM
…or: HEAD of ROD DOWN and HEAD OF MALE BLASTING DISCHARGE
　

登

トウ,ドウ,ショウ,チョウ,のぼ,あ promote, move upwards, to mount or to be mounted, to climb aboard, to hop on, ascend, rising, climb; attend to one's duty, entrance, an entry on an official register or document, to record and publish an event; to apply pressure using a foot; to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground for separation of the outer protective skin from the harvest

　FOOT STANCE over ROD SPURTING UPWARD with ORIFICE
…or: FEET IN SOME SORT OF STANCE, NOT WALKING BUT USING LEGS, FOOT USE WHILE INVERTED with CLITORIS, CLITORIS-SHAPED, MINIATURE, FEMALE GENITALIA, THE BEAN, SACRIFICIAL VESSEL, TROPHY, PRIZE
　

Meanings of elements

BAMBOO, FLEXIBLE and ATTEND TO DUTY
…or: LORDOSIS PROCEPTIVITY in STANCE with CLITORIS, FEMALE GENITALIA, TO MOUNT OR BE MOUNTED, CLIMB ON, ATTEND TO ONE'S DUTY

「Bamboo raised, climbing」: large hats were worn to conceal faces and identities in addition to being a sun-guard on hot days. In some cases, the hats had cut-outs in front from which the wearer could peep. Normally, to see the person wearing the hat or for the person wearing the hat to see well, the hat brim needed to be raised.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: large umbrella for stalls; an ancient kind of bamboo or straw hat
Japanese EDRDG: large umbrella with a long handle, used for street stalls
Unihan extended: large umbrella with a long handle, used for street stalls

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.