烝 multitude, the masses of humanity; to present something, to rise, advance, progress, to become civilized, to steam, to progress full steam ahead, to cook by steaming 氶,一,丞,灬,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ジョウ　･　ショウ
JO　U　･　SHO　U

Kun-yomi

む(す　･　もろもろ
mu　su　･　mo　ro　mo　ro

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

氶

ショウ,すく bereft of strength, lacking liveliness, state of torpor, lifeless, flaccid or flat; vapid; water vapor; steamy

　ROLLED, SECOND POSITION with WATER
…or: EJACULATION COMPLETE CYCLE with BOUND FEET OF SITTING PERSON
…or: COMPLETE CIRCUIT OF WATER
　

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
　

丞

ジョウ,ショウ,すく,たす reanimated corpse with departed spirit; deputy government official; zombie; in need of help aid or rescue

　TORPID ROD
…or: VAPID ONE
　

灬

ヒョウ,カ,× many emissions, external fertilization

　EMISSIONS multiplied, EMISSIONS repeatedly
　

Meanings of elements

REANIMATED CORPSE WITH DEPARTED SPIRIT, DEPUTY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, ZOMBIE with MANY EMISSIONS
…or: VAPID, TORPOR and ROD with MANY EMISSIONS

「Zombie, person of low level in vapid torpor and lacking further substance」with「many emissions, fire.」…data comparisons and one research philosophy lead to the conclusion that part of the process of changing, evolving from pre-human beings into relatively intelligent, sentient beings was the process of cooking food that enabled many more calories, protein, fat, and nutrients to be ingested per feeding, freeing the extra calories to power a high-energy cerebral cortex being stimulated and growing due to this feedback loop (pun intended) to find something to do with free time now that nine hours per day were not needed to forage.
「Zombie, person with low level of vapid torpor and lacking further substance」with「many emissions」…with that sort of description, there is only one way to go, and that would have to be an IMPROVEMENT for the MASSES OF HUMANITY. Becoming CIVIL while living with strangers instead of beheading, eating, emasculating and raping them and/or their ewes.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: multitudinous; the masses; to present (to sb); to rise; to advance; to progress; archaic variant of 蒸
Japanese EDRDG: many, offer, dedicate, to steam
Unihan extended: rise, steam; many, numerous

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.