蠟 wax, candle, waxy, glazed 虫,巤,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ロウ
RO　U

Kun-yomi

みつろう　･　ろうそく
mi　tsu　ro　u　･　ro　u　so　ku

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

巤

リョウ,たてがみ,もと vibrissae, long and thick hairs surrounding a head, whiskers, bristles; tactile sensing, emotional state, hunting

　many LOOSE with CAPTURE or with SOFT SPOT, WEAVING BACK AND FORTH with MOUTH ORIFICE, ENCLOSE and CHEW UP, MASTICATE, BITE, SEIZE BETWEEN TEETH, RAISED FEET WHILE SITTING, MATTOCK-SHAPED and with ONCE and ONCE AGAIN or DRIP BY DRIP, FREEZE UP, CEASE MOTION and CURLED, HIDDEN, CONCEALED, TAIL, PENIS
　

Meanings of elements

INSECT and BRISTLES
…or: ORIFICE LOOSE AND DRIPPING and VIBRISSAE, LONG AND THICK HAIRS, WHISKERS, BRISTLES

A CANDLE creates a circular depression of hot, loose, and dripping WAX from a wick made in the past from BRISTLY hairs or fibers. A WAX, GLAZE used to make CANDLES was/is extracted from the bodies of scale insects. These scale insects create piles on top of branches resembling a fish scale, and have sharp「bristly」mouth parts for piercing and sucking juices from the host plant:
　「Chinese wax is a white to yellowish-white, gelatinous, crystalline water-insoluble substance obtained from the wax secreted by certain insects. It resembles spermaceti but is harder, more friable, and with a higher melting point. It is deposited on the branches of certain trees by the scale insect Ceroplastes ceriferus, common in China and India, or a related scale insect, Ericerus pela, of China and Japan. The insects and their secretions are harvested and boiled with water to extract the raw wax. The insect bodies, which settle to the bottom, are used as food for swine. Chinese wax is used chiefly in the manufacture of polishes, sizes, and candles.」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wax 2013-09-09　]　
　See https://www.nature.com/articles/srep08141 for a description of Chinese scale maggots and insects, stunningly analogous to Chinese service providers with no-longer-integrated feet.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: candle; wax
Unihan extended: wax; candle; waxy, glazed
EDRDG: wax; candle; waxy; glazed

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.