票 holding a person for ransom, hostage, a business transaction, voucher, purchase order, delivery receipt, negotiable paper currency; lottery, taking a chance; ticket, tag, label, sign, slip of paper, chit, ballot, vote 呩,丅,罒,覀,示,

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呩

シ,たしな,この shrine or temple prostitution, religious conversion, adopting a new set of beliefs, I believe!, congregation of believers

　ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY and SHOW, DISPLAY, INDICATE, ALTAR, RELIGION
　

丅

カ,ゲ,した,しも,もと,さ,くだ,お down, rod down

　DOWN
　

罒

モウ,ボウ,あみがしら,よこめ netting, weaving within spread legs, snare, claptrap

　THE GOODS as ARRAY OF ORIFICES
…or: SPREAD LEGS with WEAVING INSIDE
…or: CONTAINMENT SURROUNDING a SPURTING ROD
　

覀

× necessary; dripping from orifices; drops falling

　inverted ORGY, PILING ON IN LAYERS within CAVITY
…or: RODS double DOWN from/in ORIFICE(S)
…or: ARRAY of RODS in NETTING
　

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
　

Meanings of elements

SHRINE OR TEMPLE PROSTITUTION, RELIGIOUS CONVERSION, ADOPTING A NEW SET OF BELIEFS, I BELIEVE!, CONGREGATION OF BELIEVERS with multiple DOWN, RODS DOWN
…or: NECESSARY, DRIPPING FROM ORIFICES, DROPS FALLING with SHOW, DISPLAY, INDICATE, ALTAR, RELIGION

「Falling drops」or「something of value, essential」or「dripping orifice(s)」with「display, presentation」meaning A SIGN of being in estrus, IN HEAT, and negotiating a BUSINESS TRANSACTION, to take or to be offered A CHANCE.
Also meaning the person chosen to become the sacrifice for a group used for HOSTAGE as the person chosen to be sent over to a less-than-completely-trusted camp and held as collateral, in the past usually a subjugated lord's daughter…hostages were often sacrifices, since everyone knew the person would not likely ever return home.
Means TO CAST LOTS or DRAW LOTS, to take or to be offered A CHANCE, as in drawing straws, a method of selecting one from many possibilities to become the sacrifice/ hostage. Casting lots was also described by Moses as the manner in which the Eternal decides stuff, in effect, a crapshoot. Referred to a TAG used to MARK a person or an animal as a SIGN of which to use as the chosen one to sacrifice. Today, the most common usage relates to a voting BALLOT (「ballot」being small 'balls' used to cast 'lots,' or ball-lot, that were first used to decide a LOTTERY). The same English root is used in「lottery」and formerly had nothing to do with voting or a democratic process of any kind, other than everyone had an equal statistical chance (theoretically) of becoming the「chosen one」sacrificed to likely die by the hands of one's enemy.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: ticket; ballot; bank note; person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera; classifier for shipments and business transactions (dialect)
Japanese EDRDG: ballot, label, ticket, sign
Unihan extended: slip of paper or bamboo; ticket

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.

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Japanese vocabulary: 111 entries

Chinese usage: 190 entries

Used in glyphs (or, see also): 29 entries

Similar glyphs with related meanings: 5 entries