務 forced performance, perform a task, duty, obligation, one's business, responsibility, to function properly, to play the role, to conduct a religious service 矛,攵,敄,力,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ム
MU

Kun-yomi

つと(める
tsu　to　me　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

矛

ム,ボウ,ほこ pike, spear, lance, halberd, carnival float display of raised meat, gripping position of a tool or weapon

　INDUCE HEAD SLIDING
…or: I MYSELF, MY OWN with HEAD
…or: GIVE TO ANOTHER, MANIFEST and THE HEAD OF A PERSON, SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING
…or: ON ALL FOURS, LORDOSIS and ROLLED BACK with HEAD SLIDING and STREAMING
　

攵

ホク,× goad, coerce, force, incite action, prostrate and stroking, whacking

　SUPINE with PETTING CROSSING MOTION
…or: WHACKED and PROSTRATED
　

敄

× to put forth effort

　CARNIVAL FLOAT with INCITED ACTIONS
…or: PIKE, SPEAR, LANCE and COERCE, FORCE, PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING
…or: ON ALL FOURS and THE HEAD ROLLED BACK with STREAM and PROSTRATED WHACKING
　

力

リョク,リキ,リイ,ちから force, power, strength, effort

　QUICK MOVEMENT IN ANY DIRECTION and TENSE FOR A LONG TIME WITH GASPING
…or: ERECTION through NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

Meanings of elements

SPEAR, LANCE with COERCE, FORCE, INCITE ACTION, PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING and with TO PUT FORTH EFFORT, POWER, STRENGTH
…or: LORDOSIS POSITION CARNIVAL FLOAT with POWER to INCITE
…or: MY OWN HEAD with PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING or PUT FORTH EFFORT with STRENGTH

「My own head」and「coerced efforts」such as, forcing yourself to commute to work in the big city every day, being an OBLIGATION, DOING ONE'S DUTY. Perhaps the power to force someone else (as if at lancepoint) to do something, such as by one's boss or spouse, to commute to work in the big city every day as an OBLIGATION, DOING ONE'S DUTY. Depicting「halberd whacking power」for performing executions by decapitation with a halberd as a TASK ONE IS FORCED TO PERFORM, DOING ONE'S DUTY that refers to the executioner. Or to the executionee by cooperating, not sobbing aloud or soiling one's trousers in advance of the beheading as「my own」「effort when getting whacked」during the execution being an OBLIGATION, DOING ONE'S DUTY. Elements individually are highly descriptive of working under a boss, or the power of human authority figures.
The「power of a carnival float to incite」action in the old days when a line of meat in lordosis position was drifting by is unchallenged yet today, inciting performance of a TASK ONE IS FORCED TO PERFORM, DOING ONE'S DUTY with「one's own head, lance, spear」with「prostrate whacking efforts.」Today, we have wireless broadband access to data in 'the cloud' floating by on smartphones at ground level to replace the carnival meat display (see 霧 that contains this glyph).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: affair; business; matter
Japanese EDRDG: task, duties
Unihan extended: affairs, business; must, should

Used within names (nanori)
つかさ　･　み

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.