將 to desire, invite, request, high commander, army generalissimo, the boss, will do (future tense), shall do, short while ago 爿,月,⺼,寸,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショウ　･　ソウ
SHO　U　･　SO　U

Kun-yomi

まさ(に　･　はた　･　ひきい(る　･　もって
ma　sa　ni　･　ha　ta　･　hi　ki　i　ru　･　mo　s　te

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

爿

ショウ,ソウ,× a piece of wood or a woody, thin strips, soil in stripes, chopped into pieces, thin slices, flakes, to carve thinly, one-sided, on one side, positioned to one side, half of a whole; split wood or bamboo, wooden plank, stiff wood, sick wood, deathbed, sickbed, stretcher, bier (for carrying the dead)

　ERECT ROD UP or DOWN and RIGHT-ANGLED GNARLY BADLY BENT
　

月

ゲツ,ガツ,つき proceptivity; month; the Moon, lunar positions, lunar phases; mooning position, meat, meat phases

　ERECT in HIGH TENSION with TWO ORIFICES over-under inside SPREAD LEGS
…or: ERECTION DRIPPING in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT, TENSE GASPS
…or: A REASON FOR TONGUING MOUTH within SPREAD LEGS
…or: ROD within ORIFICE within SPREAD LEGS
　

⺼

× HTML entity: ⺼ body meat or flesh; meat of disintegrated feet; chicks and bunnies

　ERECTION and CLEVER with DROPS
…or: STIFF with CONGEALING and WRAPPED NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED BONES
…or: QUICK MOVEMENTS with FLEDGLING WING
　

寸

スン,× squeezing grip, feeling the flow of fluids pumping, firmly holding above the elbow while measuring someone's throbbing heartbeat or pulse, ancient unit of measure (approximately an inch, 2.5 cm), careful hand

　ROD with STREAM and DRIP
　

Meanings of elements

THIN SOIL STRIPS of CHICKS AND BUNNIES MEAT with THROBBING, SQUEEZING ROD STREAMING with emphasis
…or: THIN STRIPS, CHOPPED INTO PIECES, THIN SLICES, PLANK of MEAT FLESH with SQUEEZING GRIP, THROBBING PULSE
…or: STRETCHER, BIER FOR CARRYING THE DEAD, WOODEN PLANK, STIFF WOOD, SICK WOOD, SOIL IN STRIPES with BODY MEAT OR FLESH and SQUEEZING GRIP, FIRMLY HOLDING, FEEL OF FLUIDS PUMPING
…or: SICKBED, THIN SLICES FLAKES CARVED THINLY SPLIT WOOD with MEAT FLESH and FIRMLY HOLDING, THROBBING PULSE, APPROXIMATELY AN INCH, CAREFUL HANDS
…or: DEATHBED and MEAT with ARRAY OF STREAMING with emphasis

The victors gathered the finest trophies of the vanquished king/lord from among his herd meat assets and offered them to the winning lord, INVITING DESIRE and treating female service providers as the「soil strips」(buttocks) of「chick and bunnies meat with throbbing rod streaming with emphasis」or, one's「meat in squeezing grip on a bed」as concubine commodities, the euphemism of sacrificial meat. A PALLET FULL OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT that is ABOUT TO BE offered.
「Bier, litter, pallet, or stretcher」with「body, flesh, meat」with「array of streaming fluids, pulsing」depicting corpses of the opposing army and/or king, a CHECKMATE using Western chess parlance. A COMMANDING GENERAL who slaughters the enemy and fills deathbeds. MILITARY HIGH COMMANDER who fulfills the REQUEST and DESIRE of his lord.
A completely different interpretation is valid as THE PERSON IN ABSOLUTE CONTROL AND IN CHARGE using the elements as「sickbed, carving very thin slices of meat flakes while holding on with a firmly squeezing grip」to represent the medical services provider who at that moment is bougie reaming one's meat in order to clear scar tissue from the inside of the urethra as the result of contracting a sexually transmitted infection (being CHECKMATED, no possible move to escape, one's crown, corona, 'sheikh is helpless, dead, a stump'), carving a small PALLET FULL OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT. While this medical procedure itself is neither inviting nor desired, it does enable the patient to experience the inviting of desire after successfully completing the treatment regimen and staying alive, something that can be done, WILL DO, SHALL DO IN THE FUTURE…then again, the PALLET FULL OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT FLAKES IN DELICATESSEN-THIN SLICES may have been the leftovers from the tortured losing king.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to desire; to invite; to request; general; commander-in-chief (military); king (chess piece); to command; to lead; will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago
Japanese EDRDG: commander, general, admiral
Unihan extended: will, going to, future; general

Used within names (nanori)
まさる

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.