柊 holly; false holly; ponyfishes 木,冬,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シュ　･　シュウ
SHU　･　SHU　U

Kun-yomi

ひいらぎ
hi　i　ra　gi

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
　

冬

トウ,ふゆ repeated slapping or beating sound; cooler, winter

　TWO within SPREAD FEET, CROTCH HEAD, SLOWLY DESCENDING
　

Meanings of elements

TREE and HUNG in SPREAD FEET
…or: TREE of WINTER

PONYFISHES are also known as a 'slipmouth' and as a 'slimy,' having mouth parts (similar to lips, perhaps) that can slip out and extend, protruding significantly from the ordinary mouth shape, as well as an extremely slimy exterior mucus coating. This fish can produce grunting sounds, and has an organ in its throat that flashes with luminescence. All these traits add up to the elements「woody, with repeated slapping sound」and「woody cooled」(evaporation of fluids from a wet surface is a cooling process).
The quintessential「tree of winter」as HOLLY, or, a variegated shrub that resembles it, FALSE HOLLY. However, the berries of holly are unpalatable during winter and cannot be eaten. Only during spring, after being frozen and thawed repeatedly, are the bright red berries sufficiently softened and the taste mild enough to be placed in the mouth. Holly berries are eaten by larvae of moth caterpillars (similar in appearance to worms). Many species of holly leaves have hard, sharp spikes, making it difficult for anyone to extent a hand between the branches and pick the berries.
Element「winter」also represents「hanging through the cold season to cure and soften up a bit.」So elements may also be interpreted as the「tree, plant」with bright red berries that「need to be softened up prior to use.」You may draw your own conclusions as to why the bright red berries amidst the prickly leaves and branches of HOLLY are likened to both butchering and curing bloody meat, and to sexual slavery (see 图). Elements literally are「woody with cool testicles」to suggest a relationship to the use of holly in many pagan religions as fertility symbols, long prior to any association with Christmas…the testes must be maintained at a temperature cooler than that inside the human torso, or else the sperm produced are not viable, are infertile—cool little balls, as are holly berries.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 柊葉|柊叶
Japanese EDRDG: holly
Unihan extended: holly

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.