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SHI
Kun-yomi
つつし(む ・ まさに
tsu tsu shi mu ・ ma sa ni

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Meanings of elements
ONE BELOW the LOCAL GOD EARTH-SPIRIT
…or: ONE BELOW the SMELL OF NIGHT SOIL
…or: SMELL OF NIGHT SOIL on ROD
…or: DISPLAY RELIGIOUSLY and FOUNDATION ON THE WHOLE GENERALLY, LOW-CLASS COMMONERS, PEASANTS, PISSANTS, GROUND DOWN
When one is「displaying low」it is natural to look up.「Religion humbly」as REVERE a divine being from a perspective or position assumed below, LOOKING UP with some RESPECT, AWE, or ardent desire to please.「One below the smell of night soil of a local god」suggests the fief lord or some other human authority figure STRADDLING a serf who is LOOKING UPWARD and in a position of being forced to RESPECT what is about to occur. Looking up at a display of the lord's night soil with some manner of godlike respect smacks of the English expressions 'ass-kissing, brown-nosing'…which in most cases may be better than any of the alternatives.

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: respectful
Unihan extended: respect, look up to, revere
EDRDG: respectful

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.



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