曻 position that is higher and raised off the floor, promote, to rise in rank, ascend to a higher roosting position, job hierarchy, having a master, supervising others, disagreeable, middle management; keeping one's mouth shut and head down to stay out of trouble; how to avoid the pitfalls of the Peter

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショウ
SHO　U

Kun-yomi

のぼ(る
no　bo　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

舛

ブ,セン,まい,そむ in a contrary position, opposite; contradictory, mistaken, erroneous, bad idea, deviate, both feet clubfooted, inverted feet; dancing a gigue (jig), the gig economy

　SKEWED, SLANTING TO ONE SIDE, DIPPED, HEAPING TABLESPOON OF FLUIDS with IMPEDED MOVEMENT
…or: EVENING ACTIVITIES with INVERTED FEET
　

Meanings of elements

TONGUING SOMETHING, SPEAK, SAY and A CONTRARY POSITION, OPPOSITE, DANCING A GIGUE (JIG), CONTRADICTORY, MISTAKEN, ERRONEOUS, BAD IDEA, DEVIATE, BOTH FEET CLUBFOOTED

Don't speak in a contrary manner. Don't lick or suck upon no-longer-integrated feet. Don't stick out your tongue or attempt to speak while dancing or jumping up and down. Don't fellate after no-longer-integrated foot use. Don't kiss someone's feet unless you know where they have been walking, and so on.
「Mouthing roosting chicken feet」as working underneath a higher authority: chickens sleep with open mouths while roosting, and during sleep the animals spontaneously defecate large amounts of fecal matter, not unlike an employee working under a boss. Shit normally trickles down to all lower levels but sticks to everyone along its path.
「The Peter Principle was first identified by Dr Laurence J. Peter, a sociologist, lecturer and business consultant, in his 1968 book of the same name. It states, 'In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.' In other words, if you work in an organization with a top-down management structure and you are good at your job, you will likely be promoted until you reach one rung above your level of competence. Dr Peter called this level your 'final placement.'」
[ https://www.mindtools.com/as1yww0/how-to-avoid-the-pitfalls-of-the-peter-principle 2023-05-18 ]

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.