笏 symbol of authority, flat wooden clappers about 30 cm, 12 in. long 竹,勿,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コツ
KO　TSU

Kun-yomi

しゃく
sha　ku

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

竹

チク,たけ bamboo, bowing over, kowtowing, lordosis, flexible

　HEAD DOWN with PROSTRATE STREAM
…or: HEAD of ROD DOWN and HEAD OF MALE BLASTING DISCHARGE
　

勿

モチ,ブツ,ボツ,なか,なし gushing out and bubbly, often with chunks of suspended material; animal litters, animal births; spontaneous abortion, miscarriage; do not; not yet

　HEAD IN TENSION, SKIN SLIT with HEADS SLIDING DOWN (doubled)
　

Meanings of elements

BOWING OVER, KOWTOWING and GUSHING OUT AND BUBBLY, OFTEN WITH CHUNKS OF SUSPENDED MATERIAL

A staff that causes folks to fall over bowing to the ground and become gushing and bubbly, the king's scepter or equivalent…but, so does the witch doctor's bougie. A Japanese shaku is just short of 12 inches, slightly over 30 centimeters…coincidentally, about the length of a bougie: a flat piece of wood held by shrine priests, also used in pairs to clap together, making a sharp loud sound…that perhaps in the old days also produced「bubbly chunks of suspended material」when an ill woody was placed between the clappers, and significantly the old Japanese pronunciation was not shaku but instead kotsu, which translates as「boner, the bone.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: tablet held at an audience
Japanese EDRDG: mace, baton, scepter
Unihan extended: tablet held by someone having authority

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