符 tally, corresponding parts, a count of occurrences; token (indicating a redeemable promise), coding system or marks, signal; charm, gri-gri, talisman 竹,付,

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竹

チク,たけ bamboo, bowing over, kowtowing, lordosis, flexible

　HEAD DOWN with PROSTRATE STREAM
…or: HEAD of ROD DOWN and HEAD OF MALE BLASTING DISCHARGE
　

付

フ,つ,～つ,～づ,～づけ,～つき,～づき hand over to; make a payment; adhere, attach; person squeezing something in a grip

　PERSON with SQUEEZING GRIP
…or: SLIDING ROD HEAD with FEEL OF FLUIDS PUMPING
　

Meanings of elements

BAMBOO and TO MAKE A PAYMENT, JOINED, ATTACHED, TO HAND OVER TO ANOTHER
…or: HEAD ON MALE with PROSTRATED STREAMING and ROD HEAD with SQUEEZING GRIP, FEEL OF FLUIDS PUMPING

Per scholars: anciently, when a contract was entered into, a piece of bamboo was cut in a unique manner so the two halves would only match each other, and after completion of the contract both parties would rejoin the halves with a「squeezing grip」(squeezing both sides together) as a SIGN or TOKEN that they both agreed to the fulfillment of the contracted promises COINCIDING.「By the same token」is the English expression describing this custom, meaning the CORRESPONDING side of an issue from what has just been discussed. An unmatched side meant that the promise remained as yet unfulfilled. Such a token acted as a negotiable instrument of a sort, able to be traded to another who would then receive the fulfillment of the promise by the first party, exactly as negotiable financial instruments are used today. This「thing」that could cause someone else to perform in a promised manner, sometimes of great value, describes a GRI-GRI, CHARM, TALISMAN, a thing that does the magic.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: mark; sign; talisman; to seal; to correspond to; tally; symbol; written charm; to coincide
Japanese EDRDG: token, sign, mark, tally, charm
Unihan extended: i.d. tag, tally, symbol, charm

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.