借 borrow, debt, lease, to rent from, to avail oneself of an opportunity, short-term rental of a service provider, locating a sucker 亻,龷,曰,昔,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シャク
SHA　KU

Kun-yomi

か(りる
ka　ri　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

龷

× HTML entity: 龷 cooperating, buddy system, working jointly, both, piled one on top of another, layered

　two SOIL or UPWARD THRUSTING elements in close contact
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

昔

セキ,シャク,むかし in the beginning, former, long ago, antiquity; a decade

　COOPERATIVE, COOPERATING, PILED IN LAYERS with TONGUING ACTIONS, TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: PILED ON and DAY
…or: many people FOLLOWING SUBMISSIVELY PASSING THROUGH A GAP, TO OBEY, ENGAGE IN ACTIONS JOINING AN ACCESSORY with TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
　

Meanings of elements

PERSON and COOPERATING BUDDY SYSTEM WORKING JOINTLY, PILED ONE ON TOP OF ANOTHER, LAYERED and HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: PERSON from LONG AGO
…or: PERSON at ORGY SHARED COMMONLY
…or: PERSON who PILES ON SPEAKING
…or: PERSON with multiple PENIS and TONGUING MOUTH

「Person」at「an orgy, tonguing mouth and piled erections」is someone you only BORROW, USE FOR A SHORT TERM, perhaps only RENTING them as a SHORT-TERM LEASE of a few minutes or hours, or a「day」someone with whom you have no long-term family commitment or relationship and may never meet again.
Perhaps a「person」who has something (of yours) from a「long time ago」implying that it never will be returned or repaid, a LOAN, something BORROWED, with whom you have no long-term family commitment or relationship and may never meet again (they hope). In Chinese, meaning an EXCUSE, a PRETEXT, seize an OPPORTUNITY as in 'I found a sucker!' of one form, or the other.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to lend; to borrow; by means of; to take (an opportunity)
Japanese EDRDG: borrow, rent
Unihan extended: borrow; lend; make pretext of

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.