強 compelling force, vigorous, best in category ranking or class, persistent determination, unyielding, strength and power to attract, more than normally the case, potent 弘,中,弓,厶,虫,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キョウ　･　ゴウ
KYO　U　･　GO　U

Kun-yomi

つよ(い　･　つよ(まる　･　つよ(める　･　し(いる　･　こわ(い
tsu　yo　i　･　tsu　yo　ma　ru　･　tsu　yo　me　ru　･　shi　i　ru　･　ko　wa　i

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弘

コウ,グ,ひろ expanding; growing wider and larger in all directions simultaneously, liberal [as in not limited and not a reference to political ideology], widely known; propagate

　ARCH, BOWED SHAPE of NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT and LOOSE DRIPPING STENCH CLOUD
…or: ARCHES with LOOSE DRIPPING STENCH CLOUD
　

中

チュウ,なか,うち,あた to hit the 'bull's eye' while doing (something), middle, center, within, on the inside, among; two-sided, throughout; vulva, Mother China

　ROD in ORIFICE
…or: ORIFICE TOP TO BOTTOM
…or: ROD in JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES, ROWDY BEHAVIOR
…or: SCREWING in CAVITY
…or: SCREWING in SPREAD LEGS
　

弓

キュウ,ゆみ arched curved shape, bow-shaped, secant, squeezed disintegrated foot touching toe ball to heel, weaponized foot, weaponized arch

　BENT UNTIL THE TWO ENDS OF SOMETHING MAKE CONTACT OR NEARLY SO, SOMETHING FOLDED OVER ONTO ITSELF, END-TO-END, IN-AND-OUT, SIDE-TO-SIDE with EXTREME TENSION, STRESS WITH PAIN AND GASPS, ROLLED TAUT AND TIGHT WITH SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
　

厶

シ,ボウ,ム,わたくし,ござ loosely dripping, odoriferous secret, private

　AMORPHOUS, LOOSE, POTENTIALLY ODORIFEROUS with DRIP
　

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

Meanings of elements

EXPANDING, GROWING WIDER AND LARGER IN ALL DIRECTIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY, PROPAGATING and LEGLESS MAGGOTS, INSECT LARVAE
…or: ARCHES with SHORT LEG SNAKE
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT with STENCH CLOUD and PATHOGENS, CORKSCREW DEMONS
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT ARCH with LOOSE DRIPPING VULVA, HEAD UP AND IN REPEATEDLY BOBBING with emphasis
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT ARCHES with LOOSE DRIPPING STENCH on both sides of VULVA, RECIPROCATING MOTIONS within TWO ROWDY DECEITFUL ORIFICES
…or: NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT ARCH and CHINA in STENCH on all sides REPEATEDLY, THIS IS THE POINT, THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE

Glyph vividly describes the POWERFUL COMPELLING FORCE, STRENGTH TO ATTRACT, PERSISTENT DETERMINATION, UNYIELDING unrelenting spread of the foot-dis-integrating practice with sex slaves and selling BEST IN CATEGORY prostitutes providing sexual services in China MORE THAN NORMALLY THE CASE elsewhere. Frankly, in dynastic China they actually knew how to prevent pests from breeding in cloths, and how to protect wooden bows from being infested with termites as has been suggested, but they could not finally stop the pernicious practice of foot dis-integrating until 1949 under communist governance. Today, once again the sex slave trade has made a resurgence, so it remains to be seen what happens next, in China and the world.
「Unbound cloths」used for foot-binding or to hold a poultice that have become「loose and dripping, stinky」and full of「insect larvae, maggots」will have a STRONG stinky odor, MORE THAN IS NORMALLY THE CASE, and a very PERSISTENT stench that is difficult to wash away.
「Arched copulating snakes」also are PERSISTENT, STUBBORN, and STRONG. Snakes have vestigial hind legs, claw-like appendages that are held inside around the cloaca, the orifice used for copulation, called「anal spurs」barbs with which the female snake STRONGLY attaches herself to the skin of the male snake during copulation. The male snake possesses the same inner barbs but also has forked hemipenes, a「short leg with two sides」normally held inside the body, and also attaches barbs to the inside walls of the female's cloaca, the snake's equivalent of a vagina.
Hemipenes are two half-open penises (yes, two penises, and some snakes have four penile heads, MORE THAN IS NORMALLY THE CASE), with semen troughs exposed, therefore the coupling must be MORE THAN IS NORMALLY THE CASE for copulation to succeed.
Some scholars suggest this depicts a horsefly, with a sucking proboscis that literally slices through animal hide in scissor-like motions that are piercing and painful, enabling it to penetrate a horse's (or a human's) thick hide and suck its blood, a very STRONG and particularly STUBBORN fly. Note that the old form used「orifice」(强) as either a snake cloaca, or, a sucking mouth, in addition to the listed possibility of「unbound poultice or foot cloths with stench and maggots.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort; strong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强; stubborn; unyielding
Japanese EDRDG: strong
Unihan extended: strong, powerful, energetic

Used within names (nanori)
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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.