阯 foundation; skillful and expeditious management; ready skill; dispatch ⻖,止,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ
SHI

Kun-yomi

あと
a　to

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

⻖

× HTML entity: ⻖ terraced soil slope, soil hill, rear view of naked buttocks, a fundament

　VERTICALLY TERRACED SLOPING BACKSIDE
　

止

シ,と,～ど,～と,とど,や,～や,よ,～さ foot-disintegrating procedure; stop further movement, finishing blow, to switch off, to concentrate upon and pay attention to, put an end to

　RAISED UP with ROD, VERTICAL MOTION
…or: DIVA with ROD UP
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL with flattened NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

Meanings of elements

TERRACED SOIL SLOPE with STOP FURTHER MOVEMENT
…or: REAR VIEW OF NAKED BUTTOCKS and CEASE MOVING, FOOT-DISINTEGRATING PROCEDURE

Maybe suggesting where one「stops buttocks」to live, or「stops motion with terraced slope」to build the FOUNDATION of a dwelling, then a village with some terraced-slope farming. Alternatively,「buttocks with no-longer-integrated feet」as the place a Chinese service provider rested most of the time, sitting on her buttocks as her FOUNDATION…the base on which she was supported for most of the time.「Address」in this sense refers to skillful and expeditious management, ready skill, dispatch in handling matters. Suggests that the FOUNDATION of skills possessed by Chinese service providers were in their no-longer-integrated feet and buttocks, sites least likely to transmit infection, or so it was thought.

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

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.