渉 to enter into slowly, careful insertion, to put in mindfully, to become wet slowly with head and neck protruding, to wade in; to place head and neck into the midst of (intermediary); to become involved with negotiating a channel, to be concerned with; to experience for the first time, to

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_{to enter into slowly, careful insertion, to put in mindfully, to become wet slowly with head and neck protruding, to wade in; to place head and neck into the midst of (intermediary); to become involved with negotiating a channel, to be concerned with; to experience for the first time, to enter into something new; to cross over from one side to the opposite side and return repeatedly negotiating; to range, to span the whole range of possibilities}

On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショウ
SHO　U

Kun-yomi

わた(る
wa　ta　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

沙

サ,シャ,すな,よなげる granulated, raspy, not a smooth surface, gritty, sand, sandy conditions

　FLUIDITY with SOMETHING THAT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED, LACKING, INSUFFICIENT, SHORT DISTANCE, SHORT TIME, FEW, SMALL AMOUNT, LITTLE BY LITTLE
　

止

シ,と,～ど,～と,とど,や,～や,よ,～さ foot-disintegrating procedure; stop further movement, finishing blow, to switch off, to concentrate upon and pay attention to, put an end to

　RAISED UP with ROD, VERTICAL MOTION
…or: DIVA with ROD UP
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL with flattened NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

沚

シ,なぎさ shoal, sandbar

　FLUID and HALT, STOP FURTHER MOVEMENT TEMPORARILY
…or: FLUID with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

小

ショウ,ちい,こ～,お～,さ～ relatively small condition; small stream of emissions; young, a minor; human mound; deeply felt

　STREAM of EMISSIONS
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

尗

シュク,まめ an edible bean, a bean worth eating; young uncle, close male relative, brother-in-law, sibling, anyone's younger brother, learning a lesson of some sort

　UPPER PORTION of MONS PUBIS
…or: UP TOP, RAISED, LIFTING SOMETHING HIGHER, INCREASING TENSION, ANXIETY, EMOTIONS, TO BE FINISHED with YOUNG MINOR, SMALL, HUMAN MOUND OF MONS VENUS, MONS PUBIS, MONS VENERIS, DEEPLY FELT, DEEP FEELING DIFFICULT TO FORGET
…or: ROD RAISED, ARRAYED ABOVE a SMALL EMITTED STREAM
…or: DIVINE DIVA with ROD and MONS PUBIS, YOUTH EMITTING SMALL STREAM
　

ノ

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

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

　emphasis on MANY DRIPS, DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS
…or: MANY TIMES DROPS
　

歩

ホ,ブ,フ,ある,あゆ step, walk, pace or rate, stages of progress

　YOUNG UNCLE, CLOSE MALE RELATIVE, BROTHER-IN-LAW, SIBLING with VERTICAL RECIPROCATING ROD MOTION and with ANIMAL HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAMMED FLOW
…or: BEAN WITHIN PUBESCENT POD and YOUNG, SHORT TIME, SMALL AMOUNT, LITTLE BY LITTLE
…or: FOOT-DISINTEGRATING PROCEDURE, STOP FURTHER MOVEMENT, PAY ATTENTION TO, PUT AN END TO and SOMETHING THAT OUGHT TO BE STOPPED
　

Meanings of elements

GRANULATED, RASPY, NOT A SMOOTH SURFACE, GRITTY SANDY CONDITIONS with FOOT DAMAGE, STOP FURTHER MOVEMENT, FINISHING BLOW, SWITCH OFF, CONCENTRATE UPON AND PAY ATTENTION, PUT AN END TO PROCEDURES WITH NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET
…or: SHOAL, SANDBAR with MONS MOUND DEEPLY FELT and HEAD SLIDING, DAMMED
…or: FLUID with RECIPROCATING ROD MOTION and with AN EDIBLE BEAN, A BEAN WORTH EATING, CLOSE MALE RELATIVE, YOUNGER BROTHER, LEARNING A LESSON OF SOME SORT with a SLIDING HEAD
…or: FLUID with STEPS WALKING, PACE OR RATE, STAGES OF PROGRESS

Being on the lookout for dangerous SHOALS and SANDBARS, shallow gritty spots that stop movement suddenly, NEGOTIATING A CHANNEL. Classically in Chinese meaning the same as 入 (「head erect and taut」「taut and gasping」「taut with no-longer-integrated foot」): to enter into, insertion, to put something into something else such as when negotiating a channel of some sort with head erect and taut as an alternative or replacement for a no-longer-integrated foot (see 㚻 for details).
　Perhaps the source of the English expression「getting your feet wet」by experiencing something for the first time, especially something that involves taking a risk as yet another Chinese expression brought back to England by the expelled opium-pushing drug lords.「Flow」after the「foot-dis-integrating process」with「head in up-down motion and sliding」that referred to the first time a client ejaculated into the deep folds of a service provider's no-longer-integrated feet, a procedure that certainly resulted in GETTING [her] FEET WET…and perhaps his, too.
　Suggestive of crossing from one side to the opposite side, and NEGOTIATING one's way through the bone chunks. Sticking a head and neck between two sides of the skin fold as an INTERMEDIARY. Experiencing something new for the first time after taking a risk, and so on and so forth (use your imagination)…usage as to WADE seems to have been an extended meaning.「Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17　]　

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese variant of 涉
Japanese: to cross over, to go across, to extend, to cover, to range, to span
Unihan extended: ford stream
EDRDG: ford; go cross; transit; ferry; import; involve

Used within names (nanori)
えん

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