首 power of authority; proper behavior; head person, chief; head; decapitated head held by the neck; counter for poems and songs, self-love, showing love to oneself, the head, hanged, hanging and dangling 䒑,自,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シュ
SHU

Kun-yomi

くび
ku　bi

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䒑

× HTML entity: 䒑 spurting shaft stance stuff flying up

　EMIT an ARRAY
…or: EMISSIONS from ROD SEGMENT
　

自

ジ,シ,みずか,おの cerebral frontal lobe, I, self, itself, her/himself, oneself, personally, myself

　MARKED AS EMPHASIZED PART OF A GLYPH, THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE and CENTER OF A FLESHPOT, THE GOAL, PLACE WHERE EYES ARE FOCUSED, EYES, CONTENTS, EXPERIENCE, FAVORED, CARE
　

Meanings of elements

SPURTING CEREBRAL FRONTAL LOBE
…or: SELF SPURTING ARRAY of ROD EMISSIONS
…or: SPURTING STANCE with emphasis on GOAL, AIM, CONTENT

「Spurting stance」with「self」as the best way to stay out of trouble…or「emissions arrayed with cerebral frontal lobe」depicting THE HEAD only (decapitated and rolling on the ground?) or a NECK as what remains on the torso and from where the sprays of fluids are spurting. Therefore, represents an admonition or warning to ALWAYS OBEY AUTHORITY as the best way to stay out of trouble, particularly after considering the meanings of other glyphs in which this is used as an element (「the way, the true path」and「guidance on the true path」).
　Extended meaning of TRIBAL CHIEF, the HEAD PERSON IN CHARGE who hopefully possesses sufficient intelligence and authority when commanding that someone be reprimanded, tortured, or eaten by the others steamed to perfection or boiled in an herbal broth. Usage as a COUNTER FOR SONGS, POEMS, AND BALLADS could be related to「cerebral frontal lobe」and memorization of「spurting」regaling odes dedicated to a successful raid in which a particularly evil enemy, or particularly tasty brain was obtained (brain matter generally is one-half fat, and quite tasty), traditional nightly rhymes and chants in the cavern around the fleshpot and fire, led in rousing choruses by none other than the VILLAGE HEADMAN, our hero.
　Perhaps「emissions upward」with「head」immediately after a decapitation execution, or, the much more obvious and ubiquitous case of ejaculation from the head while firmly grasping the neck of one's penile shaft, a further reference to ONE'S BOSS, the HEADMAN, a CEO, the PERSON IN CHARGE and as a COUNTER FOR TIMES WHEN ONE WAS SINGING ALONE:「spurting stance」with「self」as the best way to stay out of trouble.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc.); classifier for poems, songs etc.
Japanese: Obito, head, top, hair, top structural component of a kanji, neck, unemployed person, eldest son, older brother, older sister, older person, of a clan, head of a region, skilled craftsman, counter for songs and poems, decapitated enemy, office, official, chief, nape of the neck, back of the neck, scruff of the neck, hanging, comforter, deeply in love with oneself, madly in love with, to be crazy about, to fire from a job, to be sacked, to be fired, to be dismissed, to be beheaded, to hang, to be hanged, to be struck dead, to eat one's hat
Unihan extended: head; first; leader, chief; a poem
EDRDG: neck; counter for songs and poems

Used within names (nanori)
おびと　･　こべ　･　す

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.