布 cloth, ass-wipe, diaper, nappy, bunwad; to lay out; to take or assume a fixed position; to impose widely by government; to declare, to announce, to spread around, to make known, to rollout ノ,帀,冂,ナ,巾,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

フ
FU

Kun-yomi

ぬの
nu　no

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

帀

ソウ,めぐ route that ends at the same place it started, a cycle, a circuit, cyclical action; follow around, move something in a circular motion, to screw, screwing; action of excreting as in defecating and/or urinating

　RECIPROCATING LATERAL MOTION OF ROD STALK OR STEM WHILE HORIZONTAL, INDICATES WIDTH OR EXTENT, ONE SEGMENT with LOINCLOTH, CLOTH WRAPPING FOR ONE'S HEAD OF SOME SORT, LAP CLOTH, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION
…or: DOWN, ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS, SURROUNDING
　

冂

キョウ,ケイ,× widely spread legs, surrounding outer edge

　VERTICAL RECIPROCATING MOTION, ROD with TENSION TIGHT SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
　

ナ

× HTML entity: ナ hand (as an element); use of one's hand

　ROD with SLIDING HEAD
…or: ERECT ROD
　

巾

キン,フク,おお,ちきり,きれ loincloth, cloth wrapping for one's head of some sort, lap cloth, one's pride; frequent repetition

　SPREAD LEGS with ROD
…or: ROD VERTICAL in SPREAD LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

HEAD, SLIDING with ACT OF EXCRETING
…or: HAND on ROD VERTICAL in SPREAD LEGS, LOINCLOTH, CLOTH WRAPPING FOR ONE'S HEAD OF SOME SORT, LAP CLOTH, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION

Elements as「hand」with「loincloth」removing it and SPREADING IT AROUND by LAYING IT OUT perhaps to dry a bit, to mean a special piece of CLOTH used to wipe one's buttocks hole after defecating by first ASSUMING A FIXED POSITION of squatting and SPREADING one's buttocks cheeks.「Hand」with「rod in spread legs」suggests a CLOTH used to WIPE up the results in surrounding areas. Often, this act is accompanied by various sounds, MAKING KNOWN, ANNOUNCING, DECLARING to anyone who happened to be nearby what is occurring. The stink also SPREADS AROUND with the same basic effect.
「Hand on rod in spread legs」as a sign MAKING KNOWN, ANNOUNCING, DECLARING an intention, ASSUMING A FIXED POSITION, and likely to soon be SPREADING AROUND stuff, or, GETTING LAID.
Some fonts display these elements as「sliding down」with「act of excreting」and certainly a「hand sliding with act of excretion」depicts ass-wiping. As「head」with「act of excreting」refers to the lord or government officials IMPOSING some rules upon everyone else and using many low-level deputies, or ASS-WIPES to LAY OUT the FIXED POSITION ASSUMED by the government, ANNOUNCING, SPREADING AROUND the decree…all the same meanings apply rather well to these elements also, it seems.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to announce; to spread; cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known
Japanese EDRDG: linen, cloth, spread, distribute
Unihan extended: cotton cloth, textiles, linen

Used within names (nanori)
う　･　の　･　ほ

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.