保 ensure, insure, defend, preserve, protect, maintain, keep, sustain, guarantee, to care for 休,囗,什,ハ,仈,十,亻,呆,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ホ　･　ホウ
HO　･　HO　U

Kun-yomi

たも(つ
ta　mo　tsu

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

休

キュウ,やす to rest, resting, temporarily cease doing something, vacation, holiday, recess, suspend, idle, not working, dormant, Don't do that!

　WHAT? SCREWING TOOL LIKE TEN MEN with EMISSIONS DOWNWARD SPLASHING
…or: PERSON SPURTING SOME SORT OF EMISSION and FULL SCREWING
…or: RECIPROCATING MOTION OF ROD HEAD SLIDING and EMISSIONS with WOODY STEM
　

囗

イ,コク,× enclosure

　ENCLOSURE
　

什

ジュウ,シュウ,× what? ten men; utensil, tool, tool like ten men, an assortment, miscellaneous, ten of something

　PERSON and TEN
…or: PERSON with TWISTING, SCREWING
　

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

仈

ハツ,ハチ,× person spurting some sort of emission; a surname used in China

　PERSON with EMISSION
…or: VERTICAL ROD, RECIPROCATING MOTIONS and HEAD SLIDING with EMISSIONS
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

呆

ホウ,ほけ,ぼ,あき,おろか person tending to make poor decisions and careless mistakes, idiot, in need of protection, expressionless cognitively torpid fool unable to learn, stupid, empty-headed, senile, big empty space, blockhead; to remain in, to stay within

　MOUTH on WOODY
…or: ORIFICE with WOODY
…or: ORIFICE with SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: ORIFICE and ROD within SMALL YOUTH, MONS PUBIS, STREAM of EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

ON VACATION, TEMPORARILY CEASE DOING SOMETHING with ORIFICE
…or: PERSON, ROD HEAD and TO REMAIN IN, TO STAY WITHIN
…or: DORMANT, DON'T DO THAT! with ORIFICE
…or: WHAT?! TEN MEN UTENSIL, TOOL LIKE TEN MEN with ORIFICE
…or: EMISSIONS and TEN OF SOMETHING, AN ASSORTMENT, MISCELLANEOUS ORIFICES
…or: ROD HEAD SPURTING SOME SORT OF EMISSION and FILLED COMPLETELY, SCREWING ROTATION, HOLE OR OTHER OPENING PLUGGED, BLOCKED, NEEDLE, TEN
…or: PERSON, ROD HEAD and TENDING TO MAKE POOR DECISIONS AND CARELESS MISTAKES, IDIOT IN NEED OF PROTECTION, EXPRESSIONLESS COGNITIVELY TORPID FOOL UNABLE TO LEARN, STUPID, EMPTY-HEADED, SENILE BLOCKHEAD

「Rod head and to remain in, to stay within, woody screwing emissions with an orifice」of some type, an「idiot person」quite obviously describes someone promoting the sex trade, likely a shaman proprietress/pimp highly interested in PRESERVING and MAINTAINING the status quo of both her service providers as idiots, and her clientele as idiots. Attempting to ENSURE that both group policies promoted a healthy and safe environment in order to funnel her a continuous stream of milking cream with cash cows while remaining focused on both asset and revenue stream protection (not so unlike many insurance companies of today).
「Orifice in resting position」will be neither contracting nor spreading any pathogens, PRESERVING and MAINTAINING the status quo, but also not generating any revenue…
「Person with mouth on woody」: clients wanted various GUARANTEES of safety (from errant teeth clenching, disease) and value for their money ('slimy, yet satisfying' in the circle of life), whilst service providers needed PROTECTION from abuse (head slaps, disease).
「Person」with「empty-headed, senile, space cadet」as one who provides needed PROTECTION, PRESERVATION. A「person with an idiot」is often called upon to GUARANTEE, to be a GUARANTOR who will financially cover any loss or damage caused by the fool. Then again, perhaps this is a warning against anyone who might promise and act as a financial GUARANTOR for another as being the action of an「empty-headed or senile ignoramus.」Seems to describe a「person with someone senile」who needs help with just about everything.
「While on vacation, within an orifice」clearly describes the need for PROTECTION, and a GUARANTEE of non-transmission of fluids in either direction in order to PRESERVE and MAINTAIN the status quo upon the return to normal work-related duties at home.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to defend; to protect; to keep; to guarantee; to ensure; Bulgaria; Bulgarian; abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚
Japanese EDRDG: protect, guarantee, keep, preserve, sustain, support
Unihan extended: protect, safeguard, defend, care

Used within names (nanori)
う　･　お　･　ぶ　･　もり　･　やす　･　やすし

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.