凌 offensive, affront, slow torture, maltreatment, to suffice temporarily, to tide over, thick ice 冫,夌,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

リョウ
RYO　U

Kun-yomi

しの(ぐ
shi　no　gu

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

冫

ヒョウ,こおり drip by drip; cooling process, congeal, change between two physical states, to freeze up, cease motion

　variant of TWO
…or: emphasis marker DRIP with HEAD SLIDING
　

夌

リョウ,しの,すた dawdling, cause of a delay, something pushed up from beneath

　MUSHROOM, COPROPHILOUS FUNGI, GROUND-BREAKING, INNOVATIVE, A NEW TECHNIQUE, NIGHT SOIL COPULATION with HEELS OVER HEAD, PLACED ABOVE HEAD OR BESIDE EARS, TO BE DELAYED BY AN OFFER THAT CANNOT BE REFUSED, FULL ACCESS, RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
…or: SOIL COPULATION with INVERTED FEET
…or: MUSHROOM HEAD IN CROTCH
　

Meanings of elements

STIFFEN, CONGEAL, HARDEN, TWO PHYSICAL STATES, SOFT AND HARD, FREEZE, DRIP BY DRIP, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER with DAWDLING, CAUSE OF A DELAY, SOMETHING PUSHED UP FROM BENEATH
…or: STIFF, CONGEALED with MUSHROOM, COPROPHILOUS FUNGI with HEAD IN CROTCH

THICK ICE as「ice pushed up from beneath, torturous, causing dawdling, offensive」carries a wide range of meanings: IMPASSABLE, BITTERLY COLD, TORTUROUS, WASTING TIME, OFFENSE, and so on. Practically, any problem you can imagine after encountering a high, thick wall of ice might have an associated meaning both literally and figuratively. Note that water expands when it freezes by about 10% in volume, causing pressure on all sides of the ice, often「pushing it up from beneath」when there is nowhere else to expand. This also explains the apparently contradictory (and today, generally complimentary) meaning of SURPASS, which literally refers to 「exceed the limits, to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree」and originally did not convey definitive connotations of superiority, per se. A person with a「clogged mushroom head between spread feet」will soon SURPASS the capacity of his urinary bladder, much to his personal chagrin.
Other meanings of MALTREATMENT, SLOWLY TORTURING refer to literally stuffing a large icicle into someone's orifice(s), one of the old time favorites of executioners but not normally used during summer or autumn months. Perhaps leads to the meaning of TO SUFFICE TEMPORARILY and to TIDE OVER someone or a situation, especially a woman during ovulation (the 'in heat') time, used without embarrassment in ancient China as「changing states with mushroom head between spread feet.」 In traditional fonts, the right-lower element is「lying prone with spread feet and crotch」but with the ends of the legs (that is, the feet) positioned above or over the head, beside the ears.
A「clogged mushroom head between spread feet」as MALTREATMENT, SLOWLY TORTURING due to scarring caused by an infected urethra.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to approach; to rise high; thick ice; to insult or maltreat
Japanese EDRDG: endure, keep out, stave off, tide over, defy, slight, surpass capacity or limits
Unihan extended: pure; virtuous; insult; maltreat

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.