虺 no ambition, idle, sick, mythical venomous snake, copperhead 虬,一,丿,兀,虫,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キ　･　カイ　･　ケ
KI　･　KA　I　･　KE

Kun-yomi

まむし
ma　mu　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

虬

キュウ,ク,キョウ,みずち young dragon with horn, danger, bent and worm-like, penile pathogens, venomous

　WORMY PENIS
…or: SNAKE and PENIS
…or: PENIS with INSECTS
…or: LOOSE DRIPPING STINKY ORIFICE of PENIS
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

丿

ヘツ,えい,よう straight up erect, quick jerking movement, stretched taut

　ERECT, FLING
　

兀

コツ,× unstable, lofty, tipsy, towering, rod in copulation, stupid, copulating alone, hairless place, bald, foot amputation, dangerous

　ROD in COPULATION
…or: ARRAYED with BENT LEGS SQUATTING
　

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

Meanings of elements

YOUNG DRAGON WITH HORN, IN DANGER and RECIPROCATING MOTION HORIZONTALLY OF ROD STALK with ERECTION
…or: UNSTABLE, STUPID, COPULATING ALONE, BALD HEAD of SNAKE

Removing the legs of an insect (and a human, too, for that matter) will tend to DECREASE AMBITION. An animal without feet is similar to a snake or worm, and if such an animal is human then a fairly large one at that. A Chinese concubine without feet could not perform vital aspects of her sole purpose for living, which also will tend to decrease ambition. SICK may relate to those gangrenous feet requiring amputation.
「Stupidly copulating alone with one's snake, worm」also indicates a LACK OF AMBITION, being idle. Doing so often may result in a COPPERHEAD condition, with the appearance of a festering appendage spewing venom. Despite the given meanings, copperheads are relatively small snakes and unless some other body part is placed on or near the ground to harass the animal, the most likely scenario is that the snake bites a foot after being stepped upon. Copperhead bites tend to fester, often leading to foot amputation in the old days. After being bitten by a copperhead, the bitee often LACKS AMBITION due to the intense pain and infection that lasts for days (bitten dogs often stop eating and simply lay down all day and night, for example).
「Young dragon with horn erection in reciprocating motion」also describes A LACK OF AMBITION, perhaps since erotic self-satisfaction is so much easier, safer, convenient, and less expensive than hustling skirts, or other warm and wet orifices,…say those of sheep, or one's buddies.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: mythical venomous snake; sick; with no ambition
Japanese EDRDG: large poisonous snake
Unihan extended: large poisonous snake

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.