称 to weigh, to determine weight, balanced, suitable, appropriate; feigned, faked, fake name, moniker, call or give something a name, to be named; chanting, praising; (grammar) personal pronoun; abbreviated 禾,尔,

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ショウ
SHO　U

Kun-yomi

たた(える　･　とな(える　･　あ(げる　･　かな(う　･　はか(り　･　はか(る　･　ほめ(る
ta　ta　e　ru　･　to　na　e　ru　･　a　ge　ru　･　ka　na　u　･　ha　ka　ri　･　ha　ka　ru

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禾

カ,いね grainy, grain-like, encrusted, cereal grains, grain plants standing in a field unharvested, seeds on stalk tip, dried emissions, crusty gonorrhea gleet

　ROD DYING YOUNG
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD of WOODY
…or: THOUSAND TIMES with EMISSIONS DOWN
…or: PERSON with ARRAY OF ROD EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD and FILLED WITH SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD and BOUGIE NEEDLE EMISSIONS
　

尔

× captured, this is the method, harem herd meat asset, thou (archaic form of you), complicated

　HEAD AND NECK, ROLLED with SMALL STREAM EMITTED
…or: PROSTRATE and ROLLED SMALL YOUTH, SMALL STREAM OF EMISSIONS, A YOUNG MINOR, HUMAN MOUND, DEEPLY FELT, DIFFICULT TO FORGET
　

Meanings of elements

GRAINY, GRAIN-LIKE ENCRUSTED SEEDS ON STALK TIP, DRIED EMISSIONS, CRUSTY GONORRHEA GLEET with CAPTURED, THIS IS THE METHOD, HAREM HERD MEAT ASSET, THOU (EMPEROR'S ARCHAIC FORM), COMPLICATIONS
…or: THAT THING with GONORRHEA

Scholars say the Japanese morphed form uses elements「grain」with「thou」or「netting with gonorrhea」to indicate an offering to gods who are way too holy to be named aloud, so that a substitute name (「thou」) is used as a PRONOUN, in effect NAMING the god with some other word or MONIKER. Compare with the character for「I/me, self, private, secret」(私). PRAISING ALOUD by CALLING OUT to the gods often accompanied offerings in a public place, FEIGNING or FAKING something such as devotion or good health, but hollering loudly about god anyway in the attempt to fool one's neighbors about one's level of godliness. Being infected but FEIGNING or FAKING good health. Also in China, perhaps depicted placing grain on a BALANCE scale to weight it before an OFFERING and confirm the amount as SUITABLE, FITTING.
More to the point is「bobbing shaft tip with netting」or「woody head, prone and small stream of emissions」that describes grains such as flax, barley, oats, rice, rye, and millet being threshed, or which have been used since antiquity as components of a poultice, applied to infections for the purpose of drawing out the pus:「grain, gonorrhea with netting.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 秤; steelyard; to weigh; to state; to name; name; appellation; to praise; to fit; balanced; suitable
Japanese EDRDG: appellation, praise, admire, name, title, fame
Unihan extended: call; name, brand; address; say

Used within names (nanori)
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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.

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