食 eat, feed, food, to eclipse by fully enclosing [with mouth or other orifice] 亼,艮,丶,曰,白,比,口,人,良,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショク　･　ジキ
SHO　KU　･　JI　KI

Kun-yomi

く(う　･　く(らう　･　た(べる　･　は(む
ku　u　･　ku　ra　u　･　ta　be　ru　･　ha　mu

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

亼

シュウ,ジュウ,あつまる aligned assembly of [something] before [someone], person's rod

　PERSON with marker
…or: ARRAYED before a PERSON
…or: PERSON and ROD
　

艮

コン,ゴン,うしとら chewing meat, gnawing, using teeth, chewed or bitten into pieces; tonguing mouth in closed position of professional fellatrix

　TONGUING MOUTH of BITING SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: ROD in ORIFICE ON RAISED LEG of SITTING PERSON
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

白

ハク,ビャク,しろ,しら～ open-mouthed, conspicuous, white, blank, empty, staring in a stupor, to make clear, inspection

　emphasis marker above TONGUE IN MOUTH
…or: emphasis marker above ROD in MOUTH
　

比

ヒ,くら comparison, to compare, to rate, to be near or close to, almost the same but with some differences, a peer, a contest or competition to decide the top choice; hand gestures, motions with hands stroking, time period and billing occurrence, in proportion to [time, ability, class level, etc.]

　two PERSONS SITTING
…or: ROD RAISED with HEAD SLIDING IN a SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: RAISED LEG with ROD of SITTING PERSON, DIVA
…or: CONCUBINE with another CONCUBINE
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

人

ジン,ニン,ひと,～り,～と person, a man, male adult

　HEAD or ERECT with TAUT, STRETCHED
　

良

リョウ,よ,～よ,い,～い agreeable, very much understood whatever you say, it's all good, fine with me, B-grade, second best but acceptable, seemingly good enough, sufficient for use, ready, prepared, capable of being sold, profitable, fine, nice, pleasant, beneficial

　emphasis on ROD in MOUTH ORIFICE of MASTICATING SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: OPEN-MOUTHED, CONSPICUOUS, STARING IN A STUPOR, PRETENDING, HAVING A REASON TO… with RAISED LEG and SITTING SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: WHITE RAISED LEG of SITTING SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: emphasis on ROD in ORIFICE of SERVICE PROVIDER COMPARISONS, RATING SYSTEM
…or: emphasis on ROD in ORIFICE of SERVICE PROVIDER RAISED LEG
　

Meanings of elements

ASSEMBLED for CHEWING
…or: IN FRONT OF PERSON is CHEWING
…or: PERSON with GOOD
…or: PERSON with emphasis on CHEWING

[Elements vary by font] as「in front of person, meat chewing」or as「person and tongue in mouth, good.」Both as EAT or FOOD. A「person good, in good shape」is someone who EATS MEALS regularly. Note that older elemental forms of EAT, FOOD are still used throughout Japan, resulting in some variants of the bottom portion. Meaning of ECLIPSE stems from one heavenly body's 'divine mouth' appearing to completely enwrap something else, along the lines of the English expression, 'eat me'…some folks in the old days believed celestial bodies (divine entities) could contain other such bodies in a huge mouth during a solar or lunar eclipse, or so we are told, and the brilliance of a flashing tonguing mouth (曰) as well as a mooning situation (⺼) may in fact eclipse by fully covering or surrounding a flaming red orb.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to feed; to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse
Japanese EDRDG: eat, food
Unihan extended: eat; meal; food

Used within names (nanori)
ぐい

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.