祝 wizard, priest, proselytize, convert another to become a believer, wish another well, celebrate, congratulate, prayer, bringing a friend along, showing another the ropes (or, foot binding cloths), saying "aw, do that again" 呩,儿,示,兄,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シュウ　･　シュク
SHU　U　･　SHU　KU

Kun-yomi

いわう
i　wa　u

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

呩

シ,たしな,この shrine or temple prostitution, religious conversion, adopting a new set of beliefs, I believe!, congregation of believers

　ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY and SHOW, DISPLAY, INDICATE, ALTAR, RELIGION
　

儿

ジン,ニン,がい squatting copulation with bended knees, not walking, the male

　ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT with PENIS
…or: STRAIGHT UP ERECTION with BENT PENIS
　

示

ジ,シ,しめ show, display, reveal, indicate, apparent, altar for sacrificed meat, religion, to discipline, to demonstrate, exemplify

　TWO RODS, CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STATE with SMALL STREAM OF EMISSIONS, YOUNG MINOR, SMALL TINY FLOW, HUMAN MOUND OF MONS VENUS, MONS PUBIS, MONS VENERIS, DEEPLY FELT, DEEP FEELING, DIFFICULT TO FORGET
…or: RECIPROCATING LATERAL ROD MOTION, INDICATES EXTENT with ROD DOWN and STREAM OF FLUID IN DOWNWARD FLOW, HANGING STRAIGHT AND DOWN, NOT CURLED with EMISSIONS
…or: ROD and MALE ADULT BLASTING DISCHARGE FROM BARREL, ROBUST VIGOROUS FLAMING, BUTYL, CUBED RAISED TO THE THIRD POWER, THE DING IN ONE'S DONG with EMISSIONS
…or: TAKING SMALL STEPS WITH ONLY ONE FOOT, LOITERING, AIMLESS DAWDLING, STANDING IDLE, PURPOSELESS MOTION, HOPPING ABOUT HOLDING ONE NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT OF A SERVICE PROVIDER WRAPPED AROUND ONE'S ERECTION WHILE MASTURBATING with EMIT DOWNWARD SPLASHING
…or: ARRAY of MALE RODS DISCHARGING EMISSIONS STREAM
　

兄

ケイ,キョウ,あに elder brother, buddy, talking while squatting, orifice copulation

　ORIFICE with COPULATION, BENT LEG
　

Meanings of elements

SHRINE OR TEMPLE PROSTITUTION, RELIGIOUS CONVERSION, ADOPTING A NEW SET OF BELIEFS, I BELIEVE!, CONGREGATION OF BELIEVERS with COPULATION SQUATTING, BENT LEG MALE
…or: SHOW, DISPLAY, RELIGION with ELDER BROTHER, BUDDY, TALKING WHILE SQUATTING, ORIFICE COPULATION
…or: MOUTH and KNEELING, LEGS BENT beside ALTAR
…or: TWO with ROD EMISSIONS and ORIFICE COPULATION

Formerly meaning a WIZARD, a「religious elder brother.」…most early shamans were female.「Display」「copulating with orifice」as in a CELEBRATION of some happy, CONGRATULATORY event by throwing a party, having a bonobo-style orgy with friends and family, business associates, nonaggressive neighbors, passersby, local shamans, wizards, and so on.
　Also meaning PRAYER but in the case of these elements, likely one of begging for forgiveness and healing, as one's「religious elder brother」after learning of an illness. If speaking prayers aloud, or perhaps a depiction of what is seen by someone else looking from behind at a kneeling person bowing down at the altar with face to the ground giving obeisance to gods, that is, an「orifice with squatting legs」is all that can be seen. Note that being at the「altar with an axe」also means「prayer」but a prayer that accompanies a bloody sacrificial offering demanded by the gods for some reason, but also providing a good excuse for slaughtering some meat for the festivities, the axe for lopping off meat and subsequent joint dismemberment for easy barbequing, not unlike preparing a whole chicken. Related glyphs also mean congratulations and/ or prayer, but perhaps with a bit of old Chinese sage sarcasm added.
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External source definitions
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Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.