渚 water's edge, sandy, riverbank, sandbar, beach shore, tiny island 汩,耂,汢,ノ,曰,氵,者,者,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショ
SHO

Kun-yomi

なぎさ
na　gi　sa

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汩

コツ,イツ,ベキ,しず to sink or drown, to be suffocated with fluids

　FLUID and TONGUE SHOWN IN MOUTH
　

耂

× bundled wood shafts for burning, fagot (faggot), homosexual male, not new, not young, old

　SCREWING an ARRAY of HEADS
…or: THAT HEAD SLIDING in FECES, NIGHT SOIL
…or: SCREWING with HAND
…or: HEAD DAMMED in FECES
　

汢

×,ねた wetland, marsh

　ROD within INLET
…or: JUICES on ROD
…or: FLUID with SOIL
…or: ROD within FLESH SEAM and FLUID
　

ノ

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

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

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

者

シャ,もの HTML entity: 者 unnamed or nameless someone, a particular type of person, same kind of person, homosexual male, someone who is…, someone involved in…, long pause before continuing to speak about…, someone mentioned previously but not named again, an unnamed thing, marker for a command to perform…

　THAT HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAM with ROD, INDICATES EXTENT with BUBBLY BLACK, CONSPICUOUSLY BLACKENED AND FOAMY ORIFICE WHILE STARING IN A STUPOR, MENIAL SERVANT, USE OF SOAP
…or: BUNDLED WOOD WITH EMBERS BURNING, FAGOT (FAGGOT) with OPEN MOUTH CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE, STARING IN A STUPOR TONGUING SOMETHING
…or: THAT HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAM in FECES and HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: HEAD SLIDING ROD within RUNNING INTO ANOTHER FROM BEHIND
　

者

シャ,もの HTML entity: 者 unnamed or nameless someone, a particular type of person, same kind of person, homosexual male, someone who is…, someone involved in…, long pause before continuing to speak about…, someone mentioned previously but not named again, an unnamed thing, marker for a command to perform…

　THAT HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAM with ROD, INDICATES EXTENT with BUBBLY BLACK, CONSPICUOUSLY BLACKENED AND FOAMY ORIFICE WHILE STARING IN A STUPOR, SLAVE, MENIAL SERVANT, USE OF SOAP
…or: BUNDLED WOOD WITH EMBERS BURNING, FAGOT (FAGGOT) with OPEN MOUTH CONSPICUOUSLY WHITE, STARING IN A STUPOR TONGUING SOMETHING
…or: THAT HEAD SLIDING DOWN, DECLINING, DAM in FECES and HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: HEAD SLIDING ROD within RUNNING INTO ANOTHER FROM BEHIND with emphasis on rod in orifice
　

Meanings of elements

SUNK, DROWNING in FAGOTS (FAGGOTS)
…or: WETLAND MUCK on THAT HEAD and TONGUING MOUTH
…or: FLUIDS with NAMELESS PERSON
…or: FLUIDS with SIMILAR KIND
…or: FLUIDS of HOMOSEXUAL MEN with A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING or SOMEONE WHO IS…, SOMEONE INVOLVED IN…, LONG PAUSE BEFORE CONTINUING TO SPEAK ABOUT…, MARKER FOR A COMMAND TO PERFORM

Water near the shore or a sand bar.「Sand」(in English also) is often characterized as being many individual grains that are all「similar in kind.」The light motion of waves again and again is also「water flow that is similar in kind」and sometimes does in fact contain some of the same water as the waves before.
And now, for the alternative meaning, the one that was supposed to get the laughs among all the other sages: elements of「fluids, flow of homosexual men」who often engage in anal coitus, and the human rectum is endowed with very few mucus releasing glands (unlike a bird's cloaca, as a comparison) so that the motion does tend to resemble「repeated foamy waves crashing into a sandy shore」with the flesh of the rectum moving in and out the same way as incoming waves push sand up the beach, and outgoing waves pull sand out again (…those Chinese sages…).
A Chinese euphemism for anal coitus refers to a gritty sensation, sandy conditions, foamy flecks in wavelike motions, and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: islet; bank
Japanese EDRDG: strand, beach, shore
Unihan extended: small sand bank, islet

Used within names (nanori)
なぎ

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.