設 facilities, equipment, tool, setup, arranging everything, a display, get started, establish, founding, install, construction; supposing, in theory 言,殳,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セツ
SE　TSU

Kun-yomi

もう(ける
mo　u　ke　ru

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言

ゲン,ゴン,い,こと intercourse oral or otherwise, to say or speak words, sexual activity and foreplay

　MANY LINES with MOUTH
…or: MANY RODS with ORIFICE
…or: PALM on ROD with HORIZONTAL RECIPROCATING MOTIONS and ORIFICE
　

殳

シュ,また,ほこ stretched skin of crotch, the tools of one's trade, weapon readied, spear-like shape, stiff wooden rod

　STIFF SKIN of CROTCH
…or: SKIN SHEATH with CROTCH, YIELD AGAIN AND AGAIN
　

Meanings of elements

INTERCOURSE and STRETCHED SKIN of CROTCH
…or: WORDS with TOOL

Like it or not, glyphs containing the elements「stretched crotch skin」are likely related to skin found in crotches as「something that serves a specific function.」「Speak」as「intercourse」being a wide array of tonguing motions, and prior to intercourse sexually, PREPARATIONS must be completed first. Some of those preparations or SETTING UP procedures include installation of one's TOOLS, one tool being talking and conversion beforehand to CREATE the mood, establish ground rules, conduct inspections. Another that the ARRANGEMENT and「skin of the crotch must be stretched」of both parties, a prerequisite that may include some wet tonguing mouths of one another's FACILITIES.「Stretched skin of crotch」depicts getting SETUP and ready by PREPARATION, being INSTALLED, ESTABLISHED, with CONSTRUCTION as a type of an ERECTION. The analogies continue, but you can surely fill in the blanks without added explanations.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to set up; to arrange; to establish; to found; to display
Japanese EDRDG: establishment, provision, prepare
Unihan extended: build; establish; display; particle of hypothesis, supposing

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.