柲 a handle, the place to grip and grab ahold, weapon handle 木,必,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ヒ　･　ヒツ　･　ビチ
HI　･　HI　TSU　･　BI　CHI

Kun-yomi

にぎり　･　ふる
ni　gi　ri　･　fu　ru

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
　

必

ヒツ,かなら necessary, essential, certain, without fail, invariable, inevitable

　APPENDAGE SPEWING VENOM and DAMMED, ACCUMULATING IN HEAD
…or: emphasis on EMISSIONS with BENT PENIS and DAMMED FLOW
　

Meanings of elements

WOOD, A WOODY with NECESSARY, ESSENTIAL, CERTAIN, WITHOUT FAIL, INVARIABLE, INEVITABLE
…or: WOODY with SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE

「Wood invariably」as a place that invariably will be grabbed, a GRIP, or the HANDLE of a weapon, or the place to grab TO GET A HANDLE ON a problem.「Woody invariably, certain」suggests GRIPPING, GRASPING TIGHTLY, as a situation that is bound to occur eventually, as THE PLACE FOR GRABBING HOLD.
Perhaps referring to a「handle that has been cut into pieces, or pieced together」: bamboo handles function well with teapots and handbags. Cutting bamboo into long strips and then binding them around the grip of a tool or weapon might seem reasonable, but bamboo itself is rather slippery, and will split suddenly into needle-like fiber splinters over time and hard use, not the best idea for a weapon handle. Note that「bamboo」is not an element in this glyph, however, many glyphs equate a woody as a weapon, such as a lance, arrow, dirk, and so on.
Elementary meanings of「dammed, accumulation in appendage spewing venom」with「woody」further describes at least two reasons for GRIPPING THE WEAPON, one being the need to visit the clinic, the other being an immediate remedial measure for a case of blue balls.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: weapon handle of bamboo strips
Japanese EDRDG: handle
Unihan extended: handle

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?

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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.