頂 crown of the head, apex, topmost part, be crowned, to cover one's head with something; graciously receive, accept, or take; used in Japan as polite speech prior to eating something, to put something on one's head, to put something within one's head 丁,頁,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

チョウ
CHO　U

Kun-yomi

いただ(く　･　いただき
i　ta　da　ku　･　i　ta　da　ki

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丁

チョウ,テイ,チン,トウ,ひのと male adult, blasting discharge from a barrel, robust, vigorous, flaming, butyl, cubed, raised to the third power, the ding in one's dong

　STREAMING from ROD
…or: ARRAY of UNPLEASANT BARBS
　

頁

ケツ,ぺえじ,おおがい,かしら head with face downward, to cogitate, facing, face, the head, page, one page of a book full of pages

　ARRAY of CEREBRAL FRONTAL LOBE EMISSIONS
…or: ROD, ONE SEGMENT with emphasis on EYEING GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: ROD with emphasis on FLESHPOT
…or: ARRAY of marked FLESHPOTS
　

Meanings of elements

MALE ADULT BLASTING DISCHARGE FROM A BARREL, ROBUST, VIGOROUS, FLAMING with HEAD FACING DOWNWARD, COGITATING
…or: MALE and ROD with SELF-EMISSIONS
…or: MALE with ARRAY of FLESHPOTS, emphasis on GOAL OF EMISSIONS
…or: MALE BLASTING SHAFT, ROD STREAMING and LOOKING DOWN AT SELF

Used in Japan as polite speech prior to eating something [comments closed regarding this entry].
「Male blasting discharge」and「facing downward」looking at his own CROWN, the HEAD CORONA, that is, seeing the top of the head. Recall that the right element is「horizontal over fleshpot」ostensibly looking at something to eat. Believed to mean bowing one's head to humbly ACCEPT, to TAKE GRACIOUSLY AND RECEIVE something, and the meaning of being able to see the CROWN OF THE HEAD, TOPMOST PART becomes apparent, although no mention is made of whose head is bowed nor of which head it is…
That comes with the original glyph, which to no one's surprise is censored today and excluded from external sources: 嵿 as「emerging LAVA cone, glans peak」with「male」and「head facing downward」meaning nothing less than「I am gonna eat, take, do, receive this.」It then becomes apparent, as is commonly thought, that the top of the head referred to is that of something seen below the eyes of the beholder who is looking with「face down and cogitating at a blasted male discharge.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: apex; crown of the head; top; roof; most; to carry on the head; to push to the top; to go against; to replace; to substitute; to be subjected to (an aerial bombing, hailstorm etc); (slang) to "bump" a forum thread to raise its profile; classifier for headwear, hats, veils etc
Japanese EDRDG: place on the head, receive, top of head, top, summit, peak
Unihan extended: top, peak; carry on head; very

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.