祧 ancestral hall for ancestor worship 礼,冫,丷,ハ,丿,示,礻,兆,

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チョウ
CHO　U

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礼

レイ,ライ,× rite, ritual, courtesy, to bow, politeness, good manners, proper etiquette

　DISPLAY PENIS
…or: RELIGIOUS MYSTERIES
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT with FLACCID ROD and BENT PENIS
　

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
　

丷

× emit upward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
　

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

丿

ヘツ,えい,よう straight up erect, quick jerking movement, stretched taut

　ERECT, FLING
　

示

ジ,シ,しめ show, display, reveal, indicate, apparent, altar for sacrificed meat, religion, to discipline, to demonstrate, exemplify

　TWO RODS, CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STATE with STREAM OF EMISSIONS, YOUNG MINOR, SMALL HUMAN MOUND, DEEP FEELING
…or: RECIPROCATING ROD with DOWN and STREAM OF FLUID with EMISSIONS
…or: ROD and MALE ADULT BLASTING DISCHARGE FROM BARREL with EMISSIONS
…or: SMALL STEPS with EMIT DOWNWARD
　

礻

シ,× show, display, indicate; altar for meat sacrifices, religion

　NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT DRIPPING VERTICALLY
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT with FLACCID 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

RITE, RITUAL, COURTESY, TO BOW, POLITENESS, GOOD MANNERS, PROPER ETIQUETTE DRIPPING on BOTH SIDES and STANDING ERECT STRETCHED TAUT
…or: ALTAR FOR SACRIFICED MEAT, RELIGION with OMEN, SYMPTOMS OF A SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION
…or: DISPLAY of PREGNANCY, TRILLIONS, A BOATLOAD
…or: DISPLAY of SPURTING IN ALL DIRECTIONS with COPULATION

「Religious display, omen」and pregnancy or descendants are due only to the previous existence of one's ancestors (…how else would we be here?). Halls built in China for a family name to worship the ancestral lineage:「Ancestral halls were erected in China as a show of filial piety and family pride as far back as the Song Dynasty (960-1279). They were the ultimate status symbols of their day, with size and layout a signal to outsiders of the family's rank in Imperial China. For holidays, weddings and birthdays, relatives gathered in the hall by the hundreds to celebrate together. And they burned incense in the hall's inner chambers, where tablets inscribed with the names of deceased male family members were proudly displayed, as a sign of respect to their ancestors.」
[ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125618375973500731 2023-045-18 ]
No mention of the cause of death, however.

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

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.