奈 endure, to bear; endurance; no cure, no help possible; What can be done? How can it be helped? 二,夵,一,佘,大,示,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ナ　･　ナイ　･　ダイ
NA　･　NA　I　･　DA　I

Kun-yomi

いかん　･　からなし
i　ka　n　･　ka　ra　na　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

二

ニ,ジ,ふた,ふたたび two; a change of physical state

　ONE (twice)
　

夵

エン,トウ,すす one's destiny, family relationships, domination, smaller but cleaner, recommended, proceed, advance toward the goal, to progress, to improve

　LARGE with SMALL
…or: TWO-HANDED on STREAM OF EMISSIONS, YOUNG MINOR, SMALL TINY FLOW
　

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
　

佘

シャ,× concubine name, service provider

　IN FRONT OF PERSON is MALE with EMISSIONS
…or: PERSON and SHOWN, DISPLAYED, DIVINE, RELIGIOUS
…or: IN FRONT OF PERSON is ARRAY of SMALL YOUTH
…or: PERSON and FLACCID-TURGID with STREAMING EMISSIONS
　

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
　

示

ジ,シ,しめ show, display, reveal, indicate, apparent, altar for sacrificed meat, religion, to discipline, to demonstrate, exemplify

　TWO RODS, CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STATE with STREAM OF EMISSIONS, YOUNG MINOR, SMALL HUMAN MOUND, DEEP FEELING
…or: RECIPROCATING ROD with DOWN and STREAM OF FLUID with EMISSIONS
…or: ROD and MALE ADULT BLASTING DISCHARGE FROM BARREL with EMISSIONS
…or: SMALL STEPS with EMIT DOWNWARD
　

Meanings of elements

PROCEEDING TOWARD THE GOAL with TWO RODS inside
…or: CHANGING STATE within FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
…or: TWO HANDS at ALTAR
…or: TWO HANDS DISPLAYED WIDE APART
…or: BIG with RELIGION
…or: ROD within SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONCUBINES
…or: TWO FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

「Two hands wide apart in a display」or「two hands」above「the sacrificial meat altar, one's religion」indicating STANDING and ENDURING, BEARING UP possibly in prayer after learning there is NO CURE, that is to say it will never change no matter what, be it an illness, some physical or mental condition, or simply being big on organized religion. A posture using gestures of asking HOW? WHAT? by raising both hands palms upward. Note that the sages knew it may require a very long time before any supernatural beings answer a prayer, if at all (why is that, do you suppose?), hence this LONG WAIT requires ENDURANCE, TOLERATION.
Significantly, the original form of this glyph included a「woody」element (㮈) as well.「Two hands wide and displayed」suggests neither hand being in use at the moment, indicating STANDING and ENDURING, BEARING UP, holding off any urges while otherwise idle. Note that in Chinese, this glyph combined with one's own two hands refers to the「bent penis」element, the downwards-right concave character stroke 乚 that often entails the「talented use of one's hands to accomplish a task with endurance, doing something for which there is no cure possible (i.e., this will never change)」as whatever pertains to or involves a woody.
See the related glyph (柰) for its meaning of covered with small, red bumps or spots that are difficult to endure or bear that refer to herpetic lesions or chancres euphemistically resembling crabapples, and provided a good reason to start praying to the gods:「difficult to be rid of, cannot get away from」and both the herpes virus and the pox did stay with a person for the remainder of life, having NO CURE. Crabapples remain tart difficult to endure even after fully ripening, hence there is NO CURE for that sourness naturally. Asking WHAT CAN BE DONE? rhetorically wondering HOW CAN I BE HELPED? now that disease has caused infection.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: how can one help
Japanese EDRDG: Nara, what?
Unihan extended: but, how; bear, stand, endure

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.