蛍 firefly, glowworm ⺍,冖,虫,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケイ
KE　I

Kun-yomi

ほたる
ho　ta　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

⺍

× HTML entity: ⺍ dazzle, flashes; fiery, light rays, sparkle, flames; loose stuff spewing

　emphasis on EMISSIONS
　

冖

ベキ,× a covering, the cover, surround on all sides, covered, sheath, sheet

　emphasis on ROLLED
　

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

Meanings of elements

DAZZLING SURROUND INSECT

FIREFLY: the flash of fireflies can be seen from any direction, and normally where there is one flashing, there are hundreds of others, too. The reason fireflies flash is to locate a mate for copulation: 炏, 螢. Note that there is no actual fire or flame, but rather a hormonal reaction that causes the flashing, not unlike most species of animals.「Flashing」being a Chinese euphemism for sexual intercourse. The insects actually flash light, however, and males are not known to have two penises such as have marsupials and snakes, but the females can have multiple penises for supper as an「insect that attracts may thrusting penises」(蚈):
「…flashing serves an additional purpose. Female Photuris fireflies are highly specialized predators that can facultatively imitate the flash signal given by other species' females. Using this false signal, these predatory females are able to lure in unsuspecting Photinus males, then eat them…」
[ https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/firefly/ 2013-10-19 ] resembling a service provider who lures many males and then eats them, a「flashing sucking insect with mouth loose and dripping from short legs.」A GLOWWORM is「a bioluminescent larva or a wingless wormlike female of certain insects, especially fireflies and beetles of the family Phengodidae」
[ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/glowworm ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese variant of 螢|萤
Japanese EDRDG: lightning bug, firefly
Unihan extended: glow-worm, luminous insect

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.