秘 conceal, keep hidden, secret, private, surreptitious, to hide, to keep to oneself ー,柲,禾,必,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ヒ
HI

Kun-yomi

ひ(める　･　ひそ(か　･　かく(す
hi　me　ru　･　hi　so　ka　･　ka　ku　su

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ー

× HTML entity: ー repeated, bobbing

　REPEATED BOBBING
　

柲

ヒ,ヒツ,ビチ,にぎり,ふる a handle, the place to grip and grab ahold, weapon handle

　WOOD, A WOODY with NECESSARY, ESSENTIAL, CERTAIN, WITHOUT FAIL, INVARIABLE, INEVITABLE
…or: WOODY with SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE
　

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
　

必

ヒツ,かなら necessary, essential, certain, without fail, invariable, inevitable

　APPENDAGE SPEWING VENOM and DAMMED, ACCUMULATING IN HEAD
…or: emphasis on EMISSIONS with BENT PENIS and DAMMED FLOW
　

Meanings of elements

DANGLING FROM TIP with SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
…or: GRAIN PLANTS INEVITABLY NECESSARY
…or: REPEATEDLY GRIPPING THE WEAPON HANDLE
…or: GONORRHEA with HEAD DAMMED IN SPEWING PENIS

「Repeatedly gripping the handle, knob, hilt of one's weapon」due to the chronic pain, to keep it hidden if at all possible, and to milk accumulated gleet.
Left element of「ripe grain plants bowed over」with「necessary, inevitable」meaning CONCEAL, SECRET, KEEP HIDDEN may perhaps refer to the fact that, while the feudal lord owned all the land and the serfs with it for that matter, so that the crops raised were also the lord's property, no self-respecting farmer would be stupid enough to actually reveal the true count of bushels harvested, and when possible kept the minimum amount of grain necessary to prevent starvation hidden and concealed from the lord, obviously upon pain of death if discovered…but a beheading with the wheel of a chariot, or hanged from a tree limb by the hairs of your own head and then being decapitated was a better fate than slow, painful starvation, to be sure.
Alternatively, left element as a「drooping and dripping woody, gonorrhea」that cannot possibly stand erect, with the right element depicting a「necessary, inevitable」surgical procedure: penectomies were performed to staunch one way or another the spread of sexually transmissible diseases. Both the left and right elements depict a condition that most males would thereafter CONCEAL, be kept SECRET and HIDDEN. Older glyph used「display」「altar, religion」as the left element (祕), perhaps depicting the same sort of secrets of religious men that were to be kept hidden as otherwise their credibility might be undermined a bit, or, that one's meat had now been sacrificed for past and fleeting pleasures, but eventually the stench will tell the tale.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: secret; secretary; see 秘魯|秘鲁
Japanese EDRDG: secret, conceal
Unihan extended: secret, mysterious, abstruse

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.