栘 serviceberry, sugarplum, shadbush, shadberry; stable for horsing with herd meat assets 木,多,

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木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

多

タ,おお,まさ many, much, multi-, poly-, in tufts, tufty; placid, serene, becalmed

　EVENING TIME ACTIVITIES with HEAPING TABLESPOON FLUIDS, DIPPING INTO, SLANTED TO ONE SIDE, SKEWED
　

Meanings of elements

PLANT, STALK, STEM, WOODY and MANY, MUCH, MULTI-, POLY-

SHADBUSH trees and shrubs that produce tasty purple berry-like fruit and「much useful wood」or「many shafts」:
「The wood is brown, hard, close-grained, and heavy. The heartwood is reddish-brown, and the sapwood is lighter in color. It can be used for tool handles and fishing rods. Native Americans used it for arrow shafts.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelanchier 2013-09-11 ]
Shad is a species of fish that appear to spawn in late winter or early spring at about the same time as the SHADBERRY plant blooms in the northeastern United States of America.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: shadbush or shadberry (genus Amelanchier); name for a stable during the Han Dynasty
Japanese EDRDG: fruit tree
Unihan extended: fruit tree

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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.