姓 surname ㄥ,く,ㄅ,女,ノ,龶,生,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セイ　･　ショウ
SE　I　･　SHO　U

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ㄥ

× HTML entity: ㄥ loose amorphous shape potentially odoriferous

　UNBOUND
　

く

ㄅ

× tension gasping taut spring-like action, unbound busted foot of dynastic China, painful stress

　ELASTIC POTENTIAL STRAIN ENERGY, FLEXIBLY BENDED AND SPRINGY, FLECTURE TENSION
　

女

ジョ,ニョ,ニョウ,おんな,め female

　ROD and LOOSENED with ERECTION
…or: HORIZONTAL with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED LOOSE FOOT and NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT BENT FOR WRAPPING
…or: LOOSENED with GASPING TENSION
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

龶

× HTML entity: 龶 prick, to stab, tapered, painful condition, thorn, scorpion telson with setae bristles

　MANY TIMES with RECIPROCAL ROD MOTION
…or: PENIS within CRAFTY FLESH SEAM
…or: ROD UP with TURGID-FLACCID CHANGING STATE
…or: ROD within FECES
…or: ARRAY of FLESH SEAMS
　

生

セイ,ショウ,い,う,うま,うまれ,お,は,き,なま,なま～,む,～う all stages of life, birth, raw, head of prick

　HEAD and PAINFUL CONDITION
…or: HEAD on PRICK
…or: PRONE in FECES
…or: ROD with MEAT ASSETS
　

Meanings of elements

FEMALE with HEAD OF PRICK

「Female with the head prick or a prick's head」suggests becoming married to a male. The subject of surnames in ancient China, as with most subjects regarding ancient China, is complex. Two surnames were often ascribed to the upper classes: a patriarchal name and a matriarchal name. It was also common for marriage partners to retain their given clan surname, and not change their family name to that of the husband as is popular with Western societies. Note that the vast majority of people, the peasants and regular citizens, us「low folk」did not have nor use any sort of surnames of their own, and may have used the name of their liege lord's hill, their craft, where a crow shat that morning, the size of their wife's breasts, or the location of their roofed pit hole in the countryside, in order to differentiate themselves as a surname, such as if anyone needed a full, authorized signature upon delivery and subsequent acceptance of merchandise or a bill of lading.
Marriage is a relatively recent institution in our species’ 300,000-plus-years of history, originating perhaps 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, and until quite recently served to bind women to men as property assets, to ensure paternity, and protect the male's lineage among descendants. That puts marriage at ~1–2% of the age of Homo sapiens.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: family name; to be surnamed
Japanese EDRDG: surname
Unihan extended: one's family name; clan, people

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.