参 visiting a temple, shrine, or the grave; going and returning; being confused, madly in love, one-sided unrequited love, life out-of-balance, suitor, participate; being physically beaten, dying, or giving up and quitting, being defeated; ginseng 厶,大,彡,一,㐱,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

サン　･　シン
SA　N　･　SHI　N

Kun-yomi

まい(る　･　まい～　･　まじわる　･　みつ
ma　i　ru　･　ma　i～　･　ma　ji　wa　ru　･　mi　tsu

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

厶

シ,ボウ,ム,わたくし,ござ loosely dripping, odoriferous secret, private

　AMORPHOUS, LOOSE, POTENTIALLY ODORIFEROUS with DRIP
　

大

ダイ,タイ,おお～,～おお relatively big condition; two-handed both hands

　ROD TAUT and ERECT
…or: HAND TAUT
…or: HAND with marker for other hand, too
…or: ROD of MALE ADULT
　

彡

サン,セン,× short hairs, a pelt, fur, pay attention to, great care needed, delicate zone, hair ornamentation; many strokes

　MANY STROKES, REPEATED STROKES
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

㐱

× black glossy bush hair

　PERSON with SHORT PELT HAIRS, FUR
…or: PERSON and MANY STROKES
　

Meanings of elements

LOOSE AND DRIPPING STINKY ARRAY of PUBIC BUSH HAIR
…or: LOOSE AND DRIPPING STINKY with TWO HANDS and MANY STROKES
…or: LOOSE DRIPPING STINKY BIG-TIME and MANY TIMES

Formerly three「tongue in mouth」elements as the tonguing mouths of many service providers in one location, surrounding「person with pubic hairs」(曑). Referred to exceptionally gorgeous, goddess-like DIVINE FEMALE(S) working as service providers in SHRINES, TEMPLES operated by a shaman. These tonguing mouths naturally morphed into three「loose and dripping, stinky」(叄) elements, identifying them either as distinctly male SUITORS surrounding the girls like flies around sweet deer guano, or the girls themselves with「loose and dripping」mouths, or no-longer-integrated feet soon after being put to use, vying as SUITORS to woo more and more wealthy clientele.
Subsequently, two of the stinky dripping short legs and the「person」element morphed again into what looks like either「el grande loose and dripping」or「two hands making an offering of a loose and dripping bent short leg.」
Attractive, beautiful, goddess-like women with glossy bushes flocked by suitors COMING AND GOING all the time to VISIT THE SHRINE WHERE THESE GODDESSES were employed. The suitors themselves CRAZY IN LOVE, PARTICIPATING in the quest, but most of them BEING DEFEATED, QUITTING and GIVING UP, or DYING from some infection.
Also used as「three」in legal documents for its complexity to prevent fraud by changing a simpler numerical glyph into a different simple numerical glyph representing a different value. As GINSENG, suggests the supposed benefits of aphrodisia, as an herbal stimulant, and remedy for sexual dysfunction in men to enable PARTICIPATION, BEING MADLY IN LOVE, COPULATION WITH A SHRINE GIRL.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: old variant of 參; ginseng; to take part in; to participate; to join; to attend; to counsel; unequal; varied; irregular; uneven; not uniform
Japanese EDRDG: nonplussed, three (in documents), going, coming, visiting, visit, be defeated, die, be madly in love, participate, take part in
Unihan extended: take part in, intervene; ginseng

Used within names (nanori)
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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.