杻 handcuffs, finger trap, stent; ligustrum sinenese, Chinese privet 木,丑,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

チュウ　･　チュ　･　シュウ　･　ニュ
CHU　U　･　CHU　･　SHU　U　･　NYU

Kun-yomi

てかせ
te　ka　se

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

丑

チュウ,うし shameful, disfigured, mauled, ugly; court jester; water buffalo, cattle, herd meat asset; bully

　PULLED TO ONE SIDE, ABNORMAL SHAPE and SCREWING, TWISTED
…or: CHEWED UP with DISEASED PENIS, SWINE'S SNOUT, PIG'S HEAD, DOG SNOUT (as euphemisms)
　

Meanings of elements

PLANT and DISFIGURED, MAULED, UGLY, COURT JESTER
…or: WOODY DISFIGURED

Privet shrubs are often used as hedgerows to restrict motion, with the branches from adjoining plants naturally interweaving to form a wall of shrubbery.
Finger traps, or「handcuffs」also restrict motion and were made from thin strips of bamboo woven into a stent shape, biaxially braided. Finger traps are sometimes used as a practical joke by clowning wise guys and psychopathological jesters…pulling too hard while entrapped is an effective way to disfigure one's fingers. A「disfigured woody」also was thought to benefit by applying a STENT employing the same design and construction as a Chinese FINGER TRAP…as the penis lengthened and swelled, the stent would constrict to prevent engorgement until healing was sufficiently underway after a bougie reaming session.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: handcuffs; red apricot; handcuffs
Japanese EDRDG: ligustrum sinenese, tree
Unihan extended: ligustrum sinenese, tree

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.