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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
チョウ
CHO U
Kun-yomi
なが(い ・ おさ
na ga i ・ o sa

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Meanings of elements
ROD with MANY TIMES IN HORIZONTAL MOTION with ARRAY OF ITEMS in COMPARISON, ALMOST THE SAME BUT WITH SOME DIFFERENCES, COMPETITION TO DECIDE THE TOP CHOICE, TIME PERIOD IN PROPORTION
…or: ONCE AND ONCE AGAIN inside DISTORTED FLESH CAVITY of CONCUBINE, RAISED LEG of SITTING PERSON, SERVICE PROVIDER
Elements appear to be「once and once again in distorted cavity」(but reversed, perhaps inferring the perspective of the recipient rather than the perpetrator) with「concubines, raised leg of service provider (匕 so popular in dynastic China)」that seems to describe the very LONG LENGTH and very LONG TIME that ELDER CHIEF SENIOR concubines endured the foot binding process to wrap and rewrap time and time again those two no-longer-integrated feet. Also refers to the older, SENIOR or CHIEF of any group, such as members of a harem who had been there with a LONG TIME of service, the ELDERS who trained and DEVELOPED the new members but were no longer summoned themselves to be with the lord. Old form of this glyph used「loose and dripping, talented hand」(镸) as the lower element, referring to autoerotically killing time perhaps for this reason, similar to another old variant (see 兏). ENHANCE those LONG TIMES of being idle, possibly depicting two middle fingers of a hand in action, normally the two with LONG LENGTH, the greatest reach. Other glyphs meaning 'idle' refer to autoerotic pastime activities. Comparing these elements to their antonym meaning 'a short time, brief' (短) the elements may become apparent, since both a「darting penis and clitoris」when juxtaposed or stimulated autoerotically generally result in climax within two or three minutes on average (a fairly wide range of times are possible, even as brief as 30 seconds or so. Individual results may vary), whereas stimulation while alone may require, or cause the desire of, a much LONGER experience (see 鼚) and confer longevity, long-life (see 寿) by avoiding riskier business as sexual activity in general, which has continued unabated for hundreds of millions of years, a LONG TIME, and to which all of us today owe our very existence.
Compare this glyph to「bougie reaming」and「mauled chattel, ox, cattle」that uses elements of「one」within「pulled flesh to one side」(⺕, 彐, 丑), the people who did not live a long time.
Alternatively as some insist,「vertical array of many horizontal lines」depicts the LONG terraces carved onto slopes as a method of farming to represent the mud, fecal slurry, and water standing in the paddies.「Mattock with repeatedly bent and bobbing」digging irrigation channels and terraces for growing crops in LONG rice paddies cut into the sides of slopes that SPANNED the vertical and lateral LENGTHS up and curving around the hill, and became the SENIOR, CHIEF farming method that EXCELLED and greatly improved the yield and size of rice and other crops roughly 6,000 years ago. Terraced slope farming methods are still in use today, a LONG TIME later.
ELDERS, SENIORS are those who remain a LONG TIME. The CHIEF of a herd has the longest line of submitting females (「contained arrays of sitting persons with legs raised」), as is still true of many animal species today that maintain harems of females in a herd for copulation, moving from place to place to graze literally in very long lines.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance; length; long; forever; always; constantly
Japanese EDRDG: long, leader
Unihan extended: long; length; excel in; leader

Used within names (nanori)
お ・ おしゃ ・ たかし ・ たけ ・ な ・ は ・ ひさ

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.



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Chinese usage: 430 entries


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