乏 meager, tired, lacking, scarcity, destitute, impoverished ー,ノ,丶,ㄅ,乀,之,

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乏

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ボウ
BO　U

Kun-yomi

とぼ(しい　･　とも(しい
to　bo　shi　i　･　to　mo　shi　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

ー

× HTML entity: ー repeated, bobbing

　REPEATED BOBBING
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

ㄅ

× tension gasping taut spring-like action, unbound busted foot of dynastic China, painful stress

　ELASTIC POTENTIAL STRAIN ENERGY, FLEXIBLY BENDED AND SPRINGY, FLECTURE TENSION
　

乀

フツ,ブチ,ま stretched taut; leashed under control of another; the other side (of something)

　STRETCHED TAUT
　

之

シ,の,これ,おいて,ゆく,この of [possessive case], a possession, ownership, mine, this thing

　emphasis on LAME NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET, TENSION and TAUTLY BOUND, THE OTHER SIDE TOO
　

Meanings of elements

BOBBING with TAUT NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET
…or: REPEAT with A POSSESSION, OWNERSHIP, MINE, THIS THING
…or: HEAD SLIDING with THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE IS THE POINT, MARKED AS THE EMPHASIZED PART OF A GLYPH on NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE and STRETCHED TAUT, BOUND, LEASHED, UNDER THE CONTROL OF ANOTHER, THE OTHER SIDE TOO
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD with MY THING, POSSESSION

「Repeatedly bobbing head with emphasis on taut no-longer-integrated foot」resulted in MEAGER AMOUNTS of remaining jism schmutz of the dynastic Chinese, becoming TIRED, LACKING further reserves, a SCARCITY…spending all one's money in a cave o' wonders may deplete financial reserves also, causing DESTITUTION, POVERTY.
「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …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 ]
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
As depicted in erotic Chinese art, men in dynastic China masturbated by wrapping no-longer-integrated feet around an erect penis ostensibly to lower the risk of contracting a sexually transmissible disease or infection that often occurred when performing coitus within some sort of mucous membrane system of a female service provider, and, to gain hand-control over the pressure applied to the foot meat surrounding a weakened penis that functioned as a living cockring.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: short of; tired
Japanese EDRDG: destitution, scarce, limited
Unihan extended: lack; poor

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.