桃 fertility, sex, peach (literally and figuratively), pink, marriage, just peachy 木,兆,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

トウ
TO　U

Kun-yomi

もも
mo　mo

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

兆

チョウ,きざ omen, symptoms [of a serious health condition, or of pregnancy]; trillions, a boatload

　BENT LEG, COPULATION, ERECT PENIS within EMISSIONS UP and DRIPPING DOWN both sides
…or: STICKY FLUIDS surrounding COPULATION
　

Meanings of elements

WOODY with OMEN, SYMPTOMS, TRILLIONS
…or: TREE and OMEN, SYMPTOMS OF PREGNANCY or INFECTION

PEACHES were used as a「sign of pregnancy, omen」of fertility, since they resemble female frontal genitalia as well as the buttocks of a small, young person (to some folks…as might also the element for「omen」itself). In dynastic China, when eaten deliberately in front of others or given as a gift, peaches were used to signal「I am / she is pregnant」and when performed before an「unnamed man」(not the woman's legal husband) this also indicated that he was the child's father, as if he did not know that he was. Chinese superstition taught that demons used newborns as the foundations for the bridges that the demons constructed in the sky, so the「wood of an omen tree」that is, a PEACH TREE, was used to fashion arrows used as gargoyle charms that kept the demons at bay, and were omens of safety for pregnant mothers and newborn babes—which in fact must have been highly effective, since apparently demons acting alone have not constructed any sky bridges in China recently. Note that overdosing on peach pits can cause hallucinations of the type that may be responsible for these wild superstitions (and perhaps death from cyanide poisoning, although massive quantities are needed to do the trick so don't bother trying this one at home, either). Peaches were also euphemistic (「omens」) of a man's fuzzy buttocks, and as such, used to represent homosexual male anal sphincter coitus, one way to spread various「infections with woody.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: peach
Japanese EDRDG: peach tree
Unihan extended: peach; marriage

Used within names (nanori)
み　･　もの

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.