性 one's sex male or female; essence, characteristic, nature of; suffix -ness, -ity, etc. 忄,ノ,龶,生,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セイ　･　ショウ
SE　I　･　SHO　U

Kun-yomi

さが
sa　ga

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

忄

シン,こころ profound heartfelt deep unforgettable feeling, rod with emissions, small emission stream

　EMITTED STREAM
…or: ROD EMISSIONS
　

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

DEEP FEELING and NEWBORN

The「deep feeling one is born with」as the ESSENCE, NATURE, CHARACTERISTICS, one's SEX as in being male or female for the majority of animals. The「deep feelings」of「life are sex and birth」since without it, life will eventually cease, and what else did early humans do for fun and recreation…is it coincidence that 'recreation' meaning fun exercise, and 'recreation' meaning to create again, are the same word?
Note that the English term 'gender' was formerly a grammatical term for word declensions employed by some other languages (although, gender declensions are not used in English grammar), and was not used to designate a person's sexual identification until recent times when saying the word SEX right out loud became a 'dirty' thing to do. Elements individually are「stream of emissions and raw head of live prick」so there can be no doubt as to how the meanings relate to a human's ESSENCE, NATURE, CHARACTERISTICS, one's true heart: SEX.
「Deep feeling, streaming emission」either with/from/and the「head of a prick」can describe either or both the male and female perspectives…and transsexuals, too it would appear.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence
Japanese EDRDG: sex, gender, nature
Unihan extended: nature, character, sex

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.