晒 to dry out, to bask in sunshine, to shine on, to expose and share one's experiences and thoughts, to bleach, to expose for all to see, expose to sunshine 㫕,口,旦,儿,兀,日,曰,西,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

サイ　･　シ
SA　I　･　SHI

Kun-yomi

さら(す　･　さらし
sa　ra　su　･　sa　ra　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

㫕

× glossy, wet shiny appearance, glorious flashing

　SUN, DAY, BRIGHT FLASHING, BRILLIANT, HEAT, HOT with LOFTY, TOWERING, HAIRLESS PLACE, BALD, DANGEROUS
…or: TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, HAVING A REASON, ROD WITHIN MOUTH ORIFICE and ROD in COPULATION
…or: ON THE VERGE, FEUDAL LORD BRAGGART, CHUTZPAH, GALL, HUSBAND BROTHEL CLIENT, FEMALE ROLE, DAWNING, AN AWAKENING with COPULATION, SQUATTING, BENT LEGS, MALE
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

旦

タン,ダン,あき,あきら,ただし,あさ,あした on the verge, on the edge, feudal lord, braggart, chutzpah, gall, husband, brothel client, female role, dawn, dawning, an awakening

　SUN above HORIZON
…or: TONGUING MOUTH ARRAY
　

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
　

兀

コツ,× unstable, lofty, tipsy, towering, rod in copulation, stupid, copulating alone, hairless place, bald, foot amputation, dangerous

　ROD in COPULATION
…or: ARRAYED with BENT LEGS SQUATTING
　

日

ニチ,ジツ,ひ,～び,～か Sun, day, bright and flashing, brilliant, heat, hot

　CIRCLE DIVIDED
…or: TWO STACKED ORIFICES
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

西

セイ,サイ,ス,にし drying out, compress, dripping, drops falling, fermentation, west (as a compass point direction)

　LOFTY MOUTH
…or: UNSTABLE in ORIFICE
…or: STUPIDITY in a CONTAINER
…or: ARRAYED on ALL FOURS IN PEN
…or: ARRAY OF ITEMS, ROD with BENT LEG ORIFICE
…or: ROD and COPULATING within ORIFICE
　

Meanings of elements

GLOSSY WET SHINY APPEARANCE, GLORIOUS FLASHING and COPULATION within MOUTH, ORIFICE
…or: SUN, DAY, BRIGHT FLASHING, BRILLIANT or TONGUING SOMETHING, SPEAK, HAVING A REASON TO, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING and with JAR, DRYING OUT, DRIPPING DROPS FALLING
…or: SPEAKING with TIPSY MOUTH

Opening one's「tonguing mouth with drops falling」will cause it soon TO DRY OUT, BECOME DRY whether by sunshine or not. Surely the heat of sunshine will hasten the process, but the EXPOSING of the inner workings of one's mouth by speaking one's mind is not dependent upon the Sun. See the original glyph, 'tonguing mouth of big fool, easy pickings' (曬).「Speak, say」with「tipsy mouth」often will cause the drinker much trouble later, necessitating a drying-out period by staying sober. Loud-mouthed drunks often deserve the COLD SHOULDER from others.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: (of the sun) to shine on; to bask in (the sunshine); to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun; (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts); (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to; variant of 曬
Japanese EDRDG: bleach, refine, expose, air
Unihan extended: dry in sun, expose to sun

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.