故 intentional, willful; old, former, deceased, outmoded, obsolete; unavoidable past circumstances; therefore, for that reason, causality 古,攵,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コ
KO

Kun-yomi

ゆえ　･　ふる(い　･　もと
yu　e　･　fu　ru　i　･　mo　to

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古

コ,ふる,ふる～,～ふる ancient, old, outmoded, older method or style, used; enlarged prostate gland

　PENIS in CAVITY
…or: SCREWING with ORIFICE
　

攵

ホク,× goad, coerce, force, incite action, prostrate and stroking, whacking

　SUPINE with PETTING CROSSING MOTION
…or: WHACKED and PROSTRATED
　

Meanings of elements

OLD with PROSTRATE and STROKING
…or: SCREWING ORIFICE and HEAD RECIPROCATING HORIZONTALLY with WHACKING
…or: OLD and FORCED

「Screwing an orifice」that was「forced, coerced」for persons of any sex or age would be INTENTIONAL, a CAUSE of CIRCUMSTANCES, a WILLFUL action.「Old」(literally, the「screwing orifice from antiquity」) with「forced」as something INTENTIONAL, a CAUSALITY, WILLFUL since in many CIRCUMSTANCES (literally, what「circles something standing erect」) very old men, and some women, normally lack a certain necessary degree of sexual appeal or just plain raw ability, making some form of coercion necessary to motivate a partner and oneself. Hence, a vast market today exists for sildenafil citrate in products such as Viagra® used by both sexes for that matter, and more recently flibanserin.
「Forcing enlarged prostate gland」with「old stroking」or, some sort of「head in reciprocating horizontal motion」with one's own「screwing orifice」(such as a vibrator or dildo, or a vibrating dildo) is also likely INTENTIONAL, a CAUSALITY, a WILLFUL act since it may be difficult to engage anyone else to join in other sexual activity. And in the worst case, may well have been UNAVOIDABLE as a PAST CIRCUMSTANCE too, for any old woman or man as something occurring FORMERLY in the PAST (since puberty?) after he/she had given up trying, lacked the will, or physically is simply no longer able to get it up.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
Japanese EDRDG: happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently
Unihan extended: ancient, old; reason, because

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.