鰨 sole, species of flatfish 魚,冃,羽,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

チョウ　･　トウ
CHO　U　･　TO　U

Kun-yomi

かれい
ka　re　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

魚

ギョ,うお,さかな,～ざかな aquatic animals (refers not necessarily solely to "fish" in the modern cladistic sense, and includes cetaceans); wet and slippery meat, fishy smell, to catch a sucker

　HEAD AND NECK with CLOSED ORIFICE and MANY EMISSIONS
…or: DANGER, LOOKING UP and FILLED MOUTH with MANY EMISSIONS
…or: HEAD SLIDING and ROLLING, GASPING in SLURRY, MUCK ORIFICE with MANY EMISSIONS
…or: HEAD SLIDING and GASPING in RICE PADDY with MANY EMISSIONS
　

冃

ボウ,モウ,ずきん,おお throbbing, pulsating; repeated series of swelling and shrinking, turgid and flaccid; something covering a head

　CHANGING STATE within SPREAD LEGS
…or: SPREAD LEGS DOUBLE WIDE
…or: TWICE in SPREAD LEGS
　

羽

ウ,は,わ,はね counter for birds, chicks, bunnies and coneys; plumes of stuff, concubine service provider in training; wings, feathers, two disintegrated feet with inner drippings

　COOLING PROCESS, CONGEAL STIFFEN, CHANGE BETWEEN TWO PHYSICAL STATES, DRIP BY DRIP, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER, FREEZE UP, CEASE MOTION with EXTREME TENSION, STRESS WITH PAIN AND GASPS, ROLLED TAUT AND TIGHT WITH SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
…or: PRACTICE (doubled)
…or: WING (doubled)
…or: PLUMES (doubled)
…or: emphasis inside CLEVERNESS (doubled)
　

Meanings of elements

FISH, SLIPPERY MEAT and THROBBING, PULSATING, REPEATED SERIES OF SWELLING AND SHRINKING and COUNTER FOR CHICKS AND BUNNIES, NEW CONCUBINE IN TRAINING

A fish that starts out 'normal' but morphs into a mutant that lies on one side all the time for the remainder of its life, a fish that is noted for its ability to withstand a great deal of pressure, and is difficult to see often being covered by schmutz:「Soles begin life as bilaterally symmetric larvae, with an eye on each side of the head. But during development the left eye moves around onto the right side of the head. Adult soles lie on their left (blind) side on the sea floor, often covered in mud which, in combination with their dark colours, makes them hard to spot. Soles (along with flounders) were observed by the Bathyscaphe Trieste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench at a depth of 35,798 feet (10,911 m).」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soleidae 2013-10-28 ]
Clearly, similar to a person who starts out whole at birth but then having both feet no-longer-integrated, who must subsequently sit or lie on one side for the remainder of life, who withstands a great deal of pressure on the soles of her feet, who may smell fishy, and so on.

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

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?

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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.