纍 bind and link by winding rope around a group or cluster 品,十,畾,累,細,糸,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ルイ　･　ライ
RU　I　･　RA　I

Kun-yomi

つづ(る
tsu　dzu　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

品

ヒン,ホン,しな the merchandise, fungibles, commodities, goods, quality, grade, rank

　(many, many) ORIFICES, JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES in all positions
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

畾

ルイ,ライ,スイ,とりで many filled, plugged orifices

　many PLUGGED OR FILLED ORIFICE, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WET ORIFICE, WETLANDS, RICE PADDY
　

累

ルイ,× weary, involvement, tie up, encumber, roped together, complicit, incessant, repeated, accumulate; implicate, trouble

　PUBLIC USE, CLAMOUR, PROTOPLASM SLIME, DARK RED PIGMENT, PLUGGED FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT, MANY ORIFICES with STRINGY THREADS, VARIOUS PENILE EMISSIONS, HUMAN CONNECTION, RAW FISHY-SMELLING STUFF IN THIN STRIPS
　

細

サイ,ほそ,こま thin, slender, narrow; detailed, extremely fine, fine particulates, tiny grains

　STRINGY THREADS, VARIOUS PENILE EMISSIONS, HUMAN CONNECTION, RAW FISHY-SMELLING STUFF IN THIN STRIPS with PUBLIC USE, CLAMOUR, PROTOPLASM SLIME, DARK RED PIGMENT, PLUGGED FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT, MANY ORIFICES
　

糸

シ,いと stringy stinky and silk-like

　TINY SMALLEST YOUNGEST with EMISSION STREAM
　

Meanings of elements

SCREWING in all THE MERCHANDISE, MANY FILLED, PLUGGED ORIFICES and SPUN FIBERS, THREADS, VARIOUS PENILE EMISSIONS
…or: TROUBLE with MANY ORIFICES FOR PLUGGING

It is not likely that entire rice paddies could be bound by winding a rope around them, particularly if located on a terraced slope as formerly formed, but if that were possible, it remains unclear how they might be hoisted and carried about or for what other purpose the binding would serve. Perhaps this refers to many wet, plugging orifices to prevent escape from the eunuchs before returning to the lord (see 束). Or refers to binding oneself with medicinal herbs after becoming「loose dripping and stinky with many plugged orifices.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: rope; to bind together; to twist around
Japanese EDRDG: bind, wind about, link, join
Unihan extended: bind, wind about; link, join

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.