枘 a tenon, tool handle, wedge, cog, inserting the specially shaped tip of a woody shaft into a cavity 杁,冂,入,木,內,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ゼイ　･　ネイ　･　ドン　･　ノン
ZE　I　･　NE　I　･　DO　N　･　NO　N

Kun-yomi

せん　･　ほぞ
se　n　･　ho　zo

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

杁

×,いり spout, floodgate, penstock, sluice

　STALK, STEM, WOODY and ENTER, PUT INTO, INSERTED
　

冂

キョウ,ケイ,× widely spread legs, surrounding outer edge

　VERTICAL RECIPROCATING MOTION, ROD with TENSION TIGHT SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
　

入

ニュウ,ジュ,い,～い,はい enter, to go into put into, attendance, become a member of; confirm, agree

　HEAD or ERECTION in HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT, or STRETCHED TAUT, OTHER SIDE TOO
　

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
　

內

× inner; your home; your wife; within, among

　ENTER SPREAD LEGS
…or: INSERTION within SPREAD LEGS
…or: SPRINGY ROD of TAUT ERECTION
　

Meanings of elements

STALK, STEM, WOODY and ENTER, PUT INTO, INSERTED within SPREAD LEGS
…or: WOOD, STALK, STEM and INSERTED, WITHIN, AMONG
…or: SPOUT INSERTED WITHIN, INSIDE
…or: WOODY SCREWING EMISSIONS and TAUT ERECTION in SPREAD LEGS

A TOOL HANDLE is, of course, the place where one grasps a tool of some sort when desiring to put it to some use. Formerly most cogs, tenons, handles, and so on were fashioned using wood and inserted inside a cavity. A WEDGE is「inserted into」a seam within material, or used to create a seam, that then is spread by impacting the wedge, driving it further inside, generally by repeated pounding. A TENON is a projecting portion on the end of a piece of wood that is shaped for insertion into a mortise (literally, Old French meaning「cavity」) when joining the pieces: as this relates to Chinese and English euphemisms, inserting the specially shaped tip of a woody shaft into a cavity is exactly what occurs during coital penetration vaginally.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: tenon; tool handle; wedge
Japanese EDRDG: the handle of tools, tenon, cog
Unihan extended: the handle of tools

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.