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  • Glyph.00139
  • Strokes: 04
  • grade_08


MingLiU:
Mincho:
Gothic:
爪
爪

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ソウ
SO U
Kun-yomi
つめ ・ つま~
tsu me ・ tsu ma~

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Meanings of elements
ERECTION REPEATEDLY in RECIPROCATING MOTION and TAUT
…or: REPEATEDLY QUICK MOVEMENT UP-DOWN and TAUT
「Repeated quick agile movements up-down」with a「taut」describes an animal pawing and clawing at something. Perhaps clawing at a leash, or, a raptor in restraint: CLAW, PAW or HAND REACHING, and the strokes resemble a three-toed claw with TOENAILS.「Repeated bobbing head of erection rod reciprocally while taut」as GRASPING, SCRATCHING, CLAWING and so on…you can fill in the details. Note the old form replaced by this glyph is「something around and within a crotch, lousy」(㕚), which more clearly expresses bonobo-like crotch scratching for pleasure, known colloquially in Japan as Crayon Shin-chan's「ちんちんかいかい.」Some fonts use this glyph's element (爫) to replace the old element for「meat」that is another reference to one's crotch and taut, repeatedly bobbing head clawing and scratching.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: claw
Japanese EDRDG: claw, nail, talon
Unihan extended: claw, nail, talon; animal feet

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 78 entries


Chinese usage: 39 entries


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