久 long time; long continuation; long period of cessation ⺈,ノ,乛,ㄅ,乀,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キュウ　･　ク
KYU　U　･　KU

Kun-yomi

ひさ(しい
hi　sa　shi　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

⺈

× HTML entity: ⺈ head and neck exposed, in danger; looking upward, head up peeping out from inside

　HEAD ROLLED BACK
…or: the HEAD in 2ND POSITION
…or: HEAD in HIGH TENSION
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

乛

× rolled; second position, ready and "set" to go

　ROLL, THE SECOND POSITION
　

ㄅ

× tension gasping taut spring-like action, unbound busted foot of dynastic China, painful stress

　ELASTIC POTENTIAL STRAIN ENERGY, FLEXIBLY BENDED AND SPRINGY, FLECTURE TENSION
　

乀

フツ,ブチ,ま stretched taut; leashed under control of another; the other side (of something)

　STRETCHED TAUT
　

Meanings of elements

HEAD AND NECK IN DANGER LOOKING UPWARD, or, THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL SLIDING DOWN DECLINING DAMMED FLOW and EXTREME TENSION, STRESS WITH PAIN AND GASPS, TAUT, TIGHT and STRETCHED TAUT, LEASHED AND UNDER THE CONTROL OF ANOTHER
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT BOUND and THE OTHER SIDE TOO

「Head and neck in danger, looking upward towards heaven (anticipating death)」or「head」「tense for a long time with gasps, no-longer-integrated foot bones bound tightly」and「leashed taut, on the other side, too」depicting a condition that has been for a LONG TIME and is not too likely to change in the foreseeable future. To be thinking about a condition that HAS LONG CONTINUED and more than likely WILL CONTINUE. Note that such a condition may refer to the 'continued cessation' of activities, to both a LONG PERIOD OF CESSATION and not being able to do something such as sexual intercourse while infected, or not being able to walk, work, run, or dance for the remainder of one's physical life due to no-longer-integrated feet, as well as to a LONG PERIOD OF CONTINUATION, such as thinking about the chronic pain associated with foot-binding and living as the sex slave of another person for the remainder of one's physical life, waiting for a chronic infection to clear, and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: (long) time; (long) duration of time
Japanese EDRDG: long time, old story
Unihan extended: long time (ago); time passage, grow late

Used within names (nanori)
きゅ　･　わ

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.