柿 persimmon, wood shavings, thin pieces of wood, roof shingle, wood chips 木,亠,巾,丶,帀,巿,市,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ
SHI

Kun-yomi

かき　･　こけら
ka　ki　･　ko　ke　ra

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

亠

トウ,× emphasis on rod, palming, under control, covered

　THIS IS THE POINT emphasis on ROD, SEGMENT, ARRAY, INDICATES EXTENT
　

巾

キン,フク,おお,ちきり,きれ loincloth, cloth wrapping for one's head of some sort, lap cloth, one's pride; frequent repetition

　SPREAD LEGS with ROD
…or: ROD VERTICAL in SPREAD LEGS
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

帀

ソウ,めぐ route that ends at the same place it started, a cycle, a circuit, cyclical action; follow around, move something in a circular motion, to screw, screwing; action of excreting as in defecating and/or urinating

　RECIPROCATING LATERAL MOTION OF ROD STALK OR STEM WHILE HORIZONTAL, INDICATES WIDTH OR EXTENT, ONE SEGMENT with LOINCLOTH, CLOTH WRAPPING FOR ONE'S HEAD OF SOME SORT, LAP CLOTH, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION
…or: DOWN, ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS, SURROUNDING
　

巿

× screw; revolve, make the circuit, turn; knee pads; sacrificial actions

　SCREWING in SPREAD LEGS
…or: ARRAYED, ROD in LOINCLOTH
　

市

シ,いち market, place to trade barter buy and sell; city

　emphasis on EXCRETION
…or: COVER HEAD with LOINCLOTH
…or: PALMING the LOINCLOTH
…or: emphasis on ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

TREE, WOODY and PALMING COVERED LOINCLOTH
…or: WOODY with EMPHASIS on ROUTE THAT ENDS AT THE SAME PLACE IT STARTED, CIRCUIT, CIRCULAR MOTION, TO SCREW, ACTION OF EXCRETING, DEFECATING
…or: WOODY and KNEE PADS
…or: WOODY with CITY MARKET

「Tree」with「palm down」grabbing one's「loincloth」represents the fruit of the PERSIMMON tree. Formerly the fruit needed to fully ripen prior to eating, since if not fully ripe the astringent flavor was unpleasant…today, miracles of chemicals, genetic engineering, and hybridization have lessened this need with newer varieties that can be eaten while still having a firmer texture, similar to that of apples. However,「[p]ersimmons like [the traditional Japanese variety] must be completely ripened before consumption. When ripe, this fruit comprises thick pulpy jelly encased in a waxy thin skinned shell. …The raw fruit is used to treat constipation and hemorrhoids, and to stop bleeding. Over-consumption can induce diarrhea…」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon 2012-12-15　]　
　So, the color and consistency of the insides when ripe for eating in the traditional manner (slurping out the guts directly or spooning it out) is remarkably similar to thick brown mucus, or diarrhea (although not the taste or odor, apparently), and consuming too many in fact causes diarrhea,「palm down」grabbing one's「loincloth」running for the commode (with the traditional taste and odor). Same descriptions apply to a「city woody」or a「meat market woody」or an「excretion woody」as one infected a long while or that has recently been inserted anally,「…thick pulpy jelly encased in a waxy thin skinned shell」of smegma coating the inside of a foreskin, or filled with slimy excrement.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: persimmon
Japanese: kaki, Japanese persimmon, chopped wood, wood chips, thin shingles
Unihan extended: persimmon
EDRDG: persimmon; shingle

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.