髓 marrow, core of life, pith, essence, quintessential, soft core or kernel 冎,膸,髄,工,骨,遀,

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ズイ
ZU　I

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冎

カ,ケ,わ,さ bone; pelvic region

　ORIFICE in CAVITY above SPREAD LEGS
…or: MANY TIMES (out-of-balance) above SPREAD LEGS
…or: VAGINA (out of kilter) at apex of SPREAD LEGS
　

膸

ズイ,× marrow, core of life, pith, essence, quintessential, soft core or kernel

　FRIENDS and TWO IN TENSION TAUT with HAND on SKIN SEAM, CRAFT AND SKILL NECESSARY TO PERFORM A JOB, PLANNING, TRADING ONE THING FOR ANOTHER
…or: FLESH, MEAT OF NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET, CHICKS AND BUNNIES and TO LET LOOSE
…or: MEAT in MOTION and HAVE, TO POSSESS, ONGOING WORLDLY EXISTENCE with FLESH SEAM
　

髄

ズイ,× marrow, core of life, pith, essence, quintessential, soft core or kernel

　BONE MEAT and FLESH PLOPPING
…or: PELVIC REGION BONE and FRIENDS, TWO IN TENSION TAUT with HAND on MEAT, IN ONE'S POSSESSION
…or: BONE WITH MEAT, BONER, PENILE BACULUM, CLITORAL BAUBELLUM, KNACK, SKILL, TRICK, SECRET, KNOW-HOW, SPIRIT, FORTITUDE and TO LET LOOSE
　

工

コウ,ク,グ,× closed seam of flesh; planning and skill necessary to perform a job, skilled worker with various woods; a trade

　CLOSED ORIFICE
…or: VERTICAL within TWO MODES, CHANGING STATE
…or: UPPER joining LOWER
　

骨

コツ,ほね bone with meat, boner, penis with baculum, clitoris with baubellum; knack, skill, trick, secret, know-how, spirit, fortitude; ribbing, frame, skeletal

　PUBIC BONE with MEAT FLESH
　

遀

× to let loose; deliberately let go and drop; plop down

　MOTION of HAND with FLESH SEAM MEAT
…or: MOTION of ROD HEAD SLIDING with FLESH SEAM MEAT
…or: FOOT MOTION and HAVE, TO POSSESS FLESH SEAM in MEAT
　

Meanings of elements

PELVIC REGION BONE and MARROW, CORE OF LIFE, PITH, ESSENCE, QUINTESSENTIAL, SOFT CORE OR KERNEL
…or: BONE WITH MEAT, BONER, PENILE BACULUM, CLITORAL BAUBELLUM, KNACK, SKILL, TRICK, SECRET, KNOW-HOW, SPIRIT, FORTITUDE with TAUT MOTIONS IN POSSESSION OF MEAT FLESH SEAM

Top-right element of「left hand dropping or plopping something」or「hand in flesh slit for meat」as the key to the ESSENCE OF LIFE, the PITH, QUINTESSENTIAL, used to denote internal fluids that lubricate bodily movements.
Similar glyph used「terraced slope, buttocks」as the left element, and the whole thing may have meant「flesh that cascades or landslides or plops and drops down in rolls」of FAT, or「flesh that follows after.」Taken loosely, the next version using「bone」also meant「the workings with the body that assist movement are with the fat in bones.」This glyph is also used to denote internal fluids such as within the skull that surround the brain, and within the spinal column, both functioning to assist and lubricate bodily movement with natural body grease. MARROW is mostly fatty tissue inside bones, and is where red blood cells are produced. Red blood cells are the ESSENCE or CORE OF LIFE (one of them, at least), since without them the 'breath of life' is not possible, being the vehicles for respiration and moving oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from all the body's cells.
「Flesh that follows after」is another key to the ESSENCE OF LIFE, since animals scavenging in times of severe famine, when normal sources of prey are scarce,「follow after」the bigger predators and crack open the remaining bones in order to eat the marrow contained therein, rich in nutrients and fat, staving off their own starvation for another short while.
In any case, glyph depicts THE SOFT STUFF IN THE CENTER, a SOFT CORE encased within a tube, shaft, or some other structure.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: marrow; essence; quintessence; pith (soft interior of plant stem)
Japanese EDRDG: marrow, pith
Unihan extended: bone marrow; essences, substances

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.