荑 Imperata cylindrica cogongrass, kunai grass, to catch fire but burn out quickly, stinkweed, Japanese blood grass 芎,大,芖,弓,艹,夷,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

テイ　･　ダイ　･　イ
TE　I　･　DA　I　･　I

Kun-yomi

つばな
tsu　ba　na

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

芎

キュウ,ク,× aromatic, stink, stench, bad odor, malodorous herb, Umbelliferae, Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort, Apiaceae

　EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS, STEMS with the ARCH OF A NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

大

ダイ,タイ,おお～,～おお relatively big condition; two-handed both hands

　ROD TAUT and ERECT
…or: HAND TAUT
…or: HAND with marker for other hand, too
…or: ROD of MALE ADULT
　

芖

チ,おさ to gain control of, to subdue, govern

　EMERGING SHAFTS STALKS STEMS and TWO-HANDED, BOTH HANDS, BIG
　

弓

キュウ,ゆみ arched curved shape, bow-shaped, secant, squeezed disintegrated foot touching toe ball to heel, weaponized foot, weaponized arch

　BENT UNTIL THE TWO ENDS OF SOMETHING MAKE CONTACT OR NEARLY SO, SOMETHING FOLDED OVER ONTO ITSELF, END-TO-END, IN-AND-OUT, SIDE-TO-SIDE with EXTREME TENSION, STRESS WITH PAIN AND GASPS, ROLLED TAUT AND TIGHT WITH SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
　

艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり fucking, emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

夷

イ,えびす,えみし,ころ,たい uncouth barbarians, savagery, exterminate, kill all, raze, to flatten, suppress, conquer, subdue, eat all, devour

　TWO HANDS on WEAPONIZED ARCH, BOWED SHAPE
…or: ROD TAUT AND ERECT inside ARCH OF NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

Meanings of elements

LARGE MALODOROUS HERB
…or: BIG, MANY and ARCHED-SHAPED EMERGING PLANT SHAFTS
…or: GAIN CONTROL OF, SUBDUE with ARCHED CURVED SHAPE, WEAPONIZED ARCH
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS, STEMS and UNCOUTH, BARBARIAN SAVAGERY, EXTERMINATE, KILL ALL, RAZE, TO FLATTEN, SUPPRESS, CONQUER, SUBDUE, EAT ALL, DEVOUR

「Uncouth barbaric emerging shafts」: COGONGRASS is a tall, arching grass, highly flammable even while green and often is a source of wildfires, burning hot enough to wipe out all other plant life and then repopulate the area from its own rhizomes under the soil that were not affected by the very hot flash fire,「gaining control with weaponized arch」over the surrounding terrain. After the wildfires, the grass regrows quickly and replaces all that was wiped out. Plant contains the triterpenoids arundoin, cylindrin and fernenol that emit strong odors and are the cause of both very high flammability and flame temperatures: the most commonly known terpene is turpentine (formerly spelled「terpentine」), so the stuff burns like hell.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to weed; (grass)
Japanese EDRDG: sprouts, tares
Unihan extended: sprouts; tares

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.