弱 weak, to weaken or lessen; young, feeble, inferior; flight impossible コ,羽,冫,弜,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ジャク
JA　KU

Kun-yomi

よわ(い　･　よわ(る　･　よわ(まる　･　よわ(める
yo　wa　i　･　yo　wa　ru　･　yo　wa　ma　ru　･　yo　wa　me　ru

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コ

× HTML entity: コ 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, bent and folded in half

　CONTAINED, FOLDED OVER
　

羽

ウ,は,わ,はね counter for birds, chicks, bunnies and coneys; plumes of stuff, concubine service provider in training; wings, feathers, two disintegrated feet with inner drippings

　COOLING PROCESS, CONGEAL STIFFEN, CHANGE BETWEEN TWO PHYSICAL STATES, DRIP BY DRIP, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER, FREEZE UP, CEASE MOTION with EXTREME TENSION, STRESS WITH PAIN AND GASPS, ROLLED TAUT AND TIGHT WITH SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
…or: PRACTICE (doubled)
…or: WING (doubled)
…or: PLUMES (doubled)
…or: emphasis inside CLEVERNESS (doubled)
　

冫

ヒョウ,こおり drip by drip; cooling process, congeal, change between two physical states, to freeze up, cease motion

　variant of TWO
…or: emphasis marker DRIP with HEAD SLIDING
　

弜

キョウ,ゴウ,つよ,つよいゆみ pair of disintegrated feet, strong distasteful odor

　ARCHED NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT FOLDED OVER END-TO- END (two, as a set)
　

Meanings of elements

a set of two BEND 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, BENT AND FOLDED IN HALF with COUNTER FOR BIRDS, CHICKS, BUNNIES AND CONEYS, PLUMES OF STUFF, CONCUBINE SERVICE PROVIDER IN TRAINING, WINGS, FEATHERS, TWO NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET WITH INNER DRIPPINGS
…or: COOLING PROCESS, LOWER TEMPERATURE, CONGEAL, CHANGE BETWEEN TWO PHYSICAL STATES, DRIP BY DRIP, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER, FREEZE UP, CEASE MOTION with STRONG ODOR, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT SET

Someone WEAK and unable to walk or hardly move: a set of two「busted foot arches」with「dripping, congealed fluids」pulverized bone, meat pulp, and other tissue within each. Be sure to see「selling one's child while in constrained circumstances」(鬻) for details. Depicting the two「frigid, cold, congealing」「arched bound feet」of a concubine or service provider as a YOUNG girl who has just had her feet no-longer-integrated and bound for the first time during winter, hardly able to move, WEAK, FEEBLE and still INFERIOR as untrained:「The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. Binding usually started during the winter months since the feet were more likely to be numb, and therefore the pain would not be as extreme.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Or: alternatively,「end-to-end motion in high tension a long time with gasps」or「folded over bent in half」with「wing」and then double that element to indicate a WEAK set of wings beating furiously, perhaps since folding a wing in half will likely dis-integrate it, too. INFERIOR and implying that FLIGHT IS IMPOSSIBLE, a WEAK and FEEBLE very YOUNG CHICK sold into sexual slavery in dynastic China also for whom flight, escape, is not possible…so, why are young girls in English referred to as 'chicks' and 'bunnies'?…more Chinese expressions that became part of English, carried back from China by the British drug lords who were pushing opium, perhaps?
「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture…Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: weak; feeble; young; inferior; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than
Japanese EDRDG: weak, frail
Unihan extended: weak; fragile, delicate

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.