蠍 scorpion, client who stays overnight at a brothel 蝎,欠,虫,歇,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カツ
KA　TSU

Kun-yomi

さそり
sa　so　ri

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

蝎

カツ,さそり,すくもむし scorpion

　SNAKE, WORM, LARVA and MAKE DEMANDS, INTERROGATION, BEG FOR MERCY, HOLLERING LOUDLY, ALL OF: WHY HOW WHEN WHAT WHERE, DISPLAY OF DEAD MEAT OR ROTTING CORPSE
　

欠

ケツ,ケン,か deficient, lacking, missing pieces, broken, to be short or shortened, fragmented, splintered, headless, to be chipped, to nick, to break, to crack, to lack, to be damaged, to be insufficient; decapitation, beheading, gaping, yawning, blowing hard, gap

　PERSON HEAD AND NECK IN DANGER
…or: HEAD ROLLED PERSON
　

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

歇

ケツ,カイ,カツ,や rest stop, stay overnight, exhausted, out of energy

　MAKE DEMANDS, BEG FOR MERCY, HOLLERING LOUDLY, DISPLAY OF MEAT and DEFICIENT, LACKING, PERSON'S HEAD AND NECK IN DANGER
…or: SPEAKING with ODOR, STENCH and GAPING MOUTH, BLOWING HARD
　

Meanings of elements

SCORPION and DEFICIENT, LACKING, MISSING PIECES, HEADLESS
…or: SNAKE, WORM, INSECT, LARVA and REST STOP, STAY OVERNIGHT, EXHAUSTED, OUT OF ENERGY
…or: LOOSE DRIPPING TELSON IN HOLE, APPENDAGE THAT SPEWED VENOM with BEG FOR MERCY, HOLLERING LOUDLY, DISPLAY OF GIBBETED MEAT and DEFICIENT, LACKING, IN DANGER
…or: LOOSE DRIPPING HOLE, APPENDAGE THAT SPEWED VENOM with SPEAKING, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING and with ODOR, STENCH and GAPING MOUTH, BLOWING HARD

Scorpions are arachnids, and not snakes, worms, or insects. Nevertheless, the「bug that lodges」or the「bug that leaves you begging for mercy with open yawning mouth」is a scorpion. Scorpions lived in the same sort of burrows as did (do) humans in China, often LODGING in the same burrows with humans, in fact. Scorpions appear headless, and are capable of surviving six months or more without eating, a condition that would cause most other animals to be out of energy. Scorpions remain motionless for long periods to conserve energy when prey is scarce.

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

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.