政 political, politically, politics, governmental administration 攻,一,丨,正,攵,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セイ　･　ショウ
SE　I　･　SHO　U

Kun-yomi

まつりごと　･　まん
ma　tsu　ri　go　to　･　ma　n

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

攻

コウ,せ to go on the offensive by striking, attacking, assaulting; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; to assail

　CLOSED FLESH SEAM or PLANNING AND SKILL with INCITE ACTION, PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

正

セイ,ショウ,ただ,まさ to reform, no choice in the matter, punctual, morally correct, honest, proper, just right, upright, straight, correct conditions, logically true, accurate; mid-winter, first month of lunar year

　RECIPROCAL MOTION VERTICAL ROD with FIVE
…or: HORIZONTALLY STRAIGHT and FEET
…or: ARRAY of FOOT DISINTEGRATING
…or: HORIZONTAL MOTION and SERIOUS CONCENTRATION, CEASE
…or: ROD of the DOG
　

攵

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

　SUPINE with PETTING CROSSING MOTION
…or: WHACKED and PROSTRATED
　

Meanings of elements

TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE in ALL DIRECTIONS
…or: REFORMS, MORAL CORRECTNESS and COERCED, ENFORCED

「Reform, correctness, moral straightness」that is「forced」depicts POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and ADMINISTERING PROCEDURES for the well-being of people (whether wanted or not), the GOVERNMENT「whacking people into line」or into submissive and proper behavior while attempting to force the remainder of us pissant serfs and commoners to behave correctly, to keep society「reformed, proper and correct.」Attempting to enforce those laws by「whacking prone」offenders with brute squads, but the politicians and government itself exempted of course.
Large portions of the population became infected with pathogens, causing specific quarters and brothel districts within towns to be red-lined on maps within patrolled walls and gateways forcing medical inspections prior to admission in order to mitigate the spread of sexually transmissible infections. Actually, a large portion of the population today still are or have been infected with sexually transmissible infections. Estimates vary, but generally are in the range of one-third of the population of the United States of America are at any given time infected with an STD (maybe we should cease the practice of shaking hands?)…estimates of those folks who have ever had an STD once or more during his or her lifetime are of course much, much higher, and in the good old days thousands of years ago, those folks died young and in pain as the inevitable consequence.「Reform, correctness, moral straightness」that is「forced」depicts ADMINISTERING PROCEDURES to prevent the death of the population before taxes can be collected by the lord.
Alternatively interpreted as GOVERNMENTS and individual POLITICIANS must「force」themselves to reform, or at least maintain the appearance of being「proper and correct」if not in actual deed, or risk being executed, overthrown in rebellion and revolution, etc.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: political; politics; government
Japanese EDRDG: politics, government
Unihan extended: government, political affairs

Used within names (nanori)
ただ　･　まさ

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.