宿 star cluster, forced to stay overnight, all through the night, inn, lodging, motel; special non-monetary perquisites offered by innkeepers to attract travellers; to be a parasite, becoming pregnant, quickie relief 伯,㝉,亻,白,宀,佰,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シュク
SHU　KU

Kun-yomi

やど　･　やど(る　･　やど(す
ya　do　･　ya　do　ru　･　ya　do　su

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伯

ハク,× leader, nobility (a count); eldest brother, uncle who is older than your related parent

　PERSON who is OPEN-MOUTHED, CONSPICUOUS
…or: WHITE ROD HEAD
…or: PERSON with emphasis on ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: PERSON with emphasis on SPEAKING, SAYING THINGS, TONGUING MOUTH, WHITE, BLANK, EMPTY, STARING IN A STUPOR
…or: PERSON with emphasis on HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
　

㝉

× calm and peaceful; rather…, prefer… (used as a term of comparison), cause to stand, being within a vestibule

　DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH, AT HOME and ONE
…or: DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH, AT HOME with LATERAL RECIPROCATING ROD MOTIONS
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

白

ハク,ビャク,しろ,しら～ open-mouthed, conspicuous, white, blank, empty, staring in a stupor, to make clear, inspection

　emphasis marker above TONGUE IN MOUTH
…or: emphasis marker above ROD in MOUTH
　

宀

ベン,メン,× surround from above, deliberately out-of-reach, at home, roofed area

　SURROUND, COVERED ALL SIDES from above (marker)
　

佰

ヒャク,ハク,おさ the boss, leader of many people, clan chief, village chieftain, military captain over one hundred troops, managerial rank, management, manager

　ONE NOBLE MAN
…or: ROD of NOBLEMAN
…or: NOBLEMAN with a ROD
…or: OPEN-MOUTHED PERSON CONSPICUOUSLY ARRAYED
…or: PERSON with HUNDRED
…or: ROD HEAD SLIDING with a HUNDRED
…or: ROD HEAD with ARRAY OF TONGUING MOUTHS
…or: PERSON with ARRAY OF SPOKEN WORDS
…or: ROD HEAD in RECIPROCATING MOTIONS and CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE, STARING IN A STUPOR
…or: PERSON with emphasis on HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING with RECIPROCATING MOTIONS, ROD
　

Meanings of elements

NOBILITY with a PREFERENCE
…or: PREFERRED by NOBILITY
…or: DELIBERATELY SURROUNDING AT HOME the ROD of ELDEST BROTHER
…or: CAUSE TO STAND, BEING WITHIN A VESTIBULE with ROD of ELDEST BROTHER, UNCLE
…or: SURROUND FROM ABOVE, DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH, AT HOME with THE BOSS, LEADER, CLAN CHIEF, VILLAGE CHIEFTAIN, MILITARY CAPTAIN, MANAGERIAL RANK, MANAGEMENT, MANAGER
…or: OUT-OF-REACH DELIBERATELY SURROUND PERSON with ROD and with TONGUING MOUTHS
…or: ROD HEAD DELIBERATELY with CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE HORIZONTAL ROD IN RECIPROCATING MOTIONS
…or: PREFERENCE FOR ROD HEAD with RECIPROCAL MOTIONS of OPEN TONGUING MOUTH
…or: UNDER ROOF SLIDING ROD HEAD A HUNDRED TIMES

「Surrounded from above, deliberately out-of-reach, in your home」and「nobleman military commander, captain of one hundred troops」may have referring to forced BILLETING of a commander in a home for the night prior to moving on with the troops the next morning. Meaning literally THROUGH THE NIGHT, and also to PROVIDE TEMPORARY SHELTER or LODGING. Anyone staying at an INN or a SHELTER is also FORCED TO STAY THE NIGHT, not being at their own home due to travel, illness, childbirth, and so on. Note the association with school homework is something students are「forced to complete through the night」and have ready the following morning when they set off to school again.
「Deliberately out-of-reach surrounding person's rod with tonguing mouth」might also be FORCED TO STAY THE NIGHT keeping busy, as a CLUSTER OF STARS (see 星 for details) while staying overnight with a nobleman being entertained by a shaman and her 'troops.'
Moreover, some ancient innkeepers quickly learned that providing 'perquisites, perks, perky sets' together with short-term room rentals led to much greater profit margins, return clients, and virtually no rates of vacancy…some even encouraged a preference of the locals to stay overnight rather than be a bore at home:「preference for rod head with reciprocal motions of open tonguing mouth.」Notwithstanding,「rod head deliberately with conspicuously white horizontal rod in reciprocating motions」and「under roof sliding rod head a hundred times」both sound a bit like a twentieth century, pre-smartphone/Internet era of an overnight stay alone in a motel viewing the adult pay-per-view channel cinematographic offerings:「and we'll leave the light on for ya.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: constellation; night; classifier for nights; lodge for the night; old; former
Japanese EDRDG: inn, lodging, relay station, dwell, lodge, be pregnant, home, dwelling
Unihan extended: stop, rest, lodge, stay overnight; constellation

Used within names (nanori)
すく　･　ぶすき　･　やけ

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.