洪 flood, deluge, vast flow, heavy downpour, overrun with fluids, inundate, to swamp 汢,土,ハ,氵,共,

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汢

×,ねた wetland, marsh

　ROD within INLET
…or: JUICES on ROD
…or: FLUID with SOIL
…or: ROD within FLESH SEAM and FLUID
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: RODS UP
…or: ROD within A FLESH SEAM
　

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

　emphasis on MANY DRIPS, DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS
…or: MANY TIMES DROPS
　

共

キョウ,とも,～ども communal, communist, a commune; to share commonly, all together; cooperating, buddy system, working jointly; both; one on top of another; layered; an orgy

　multiple NIGHT SOIL EMISSIONS
…or: COOPERATIVE EMISSIONS
…or: COMMUNAL EMISSIONS
…or: DUO of UPWARD THRUSTING with EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

WETLAND, MARSH with SOIL, CLAY, NIGHT SOIL FECES, STOOL, MANURE FERTILIZER, OPIUM with EMIT DOWNWARD SPLASHING
…or: FLUIDS and SHARE COMMONLY, ONE ON TOP OF ANOTHER, LAYERED, ORGY

When many「fluid flows」come「together and cooperate」a FLOOD occurs. It cannot truly be said that most flooding is a desired event as it normally brings disasters such as destruction of the land, homelessness, crop failure, famine, drowning and disease, and so it may be strange to think of FLOODS as「a flow of fluids that is cooperating」perhaps might describe irrigation, but not flooding, unless the floodwaters are perceived as cooperating with one another to innundate the land.「Fluids shared commonly」makes some sense since the waters are uncontrollable, although「shared」is a term normally with a positive connotation.「Fluids during an orgy of cooperation」seems to fit VAST FLOW, DELUGE as well.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: flood; big; great
Japanese EDRDG: deluge, flood, vast
Unihan extended: vast, immense; flood, deluge

Used within names (nanori)
ほん

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.