偶 accidental, mate, pair, casual; unexpectedly, by chance, seldom; spouse, human-like figure (doll, idol, puppet) 佃,禸,亻,禺,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

グウ
GU　U

Kun-yomi

たま
ta　ma

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

佃

テン,デン,つくだ tenant farmer, serf; hunting, prowling

　TOOL in ENCLOSURE
…or: TOOL in ORIFICE
…or: PERSON and WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, RICE PADDY
　

禸

ジュウ,ニュ,あしあと buttocks, rump, anus, tail; leaving an impression in some sort of soil, pushing hard with a foot

　SPREAD LEGS and DRIPPING STENCH CLOUD, SHORT LEG
…or: SPREAD LEGS and VERTICAL MOTION with REPEATED DRIPPING
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

禺

グ,グウ,おながざる legendary primate of ancient China, early humans, unpredictable behavior, erratic, humans lately, primate with legendary long appendage in spread legs

　SPEAK CHATTERING BABOON'S HIND
…or: FILLED ORIFICE of RUMP, SPREAD LEGS with LOOSE DRIPPING
　

Meanings of elements

HUNTING, PROWLING for BUTTOCKS, RUMP, ANUS, TAIL
…or: PERSON with UNPREDICTABLE BEHAVIOR, ERRATIC, LEGENDARY PRIMATE OF ANCIENT CHINA, EARLY HUMANS, HUMANS LATELY

「Prowling, hunting for tail, rump, buttocks」as MATE, BY CHANCE, CASUAL SEX should need no explanation.「Person stinky loose dripping plugging rump orifice」as one's SPOUSE should need no further explanation, especially for the given meanings as one's spouse combined with UNEXPECTEDLY, UNANTICIPATED, RARE or SELDOM. In dynastic China, that was what the shaman's service providers provided, and not one's spouse generally.
Dictionaries state that the right elements of「short leg between spread legs plugging an orifice」mean「long-tailed monkey」but more likely refer to a primate that enjoys plugging rump orifices and depicts「a chance, opportunistic, unpredictable」behavior, either due to being ape-like or due to happening upon an orifice to plug with a short leg that had been unanticipated. With「person」here refers to one's SPOUSE, and UNEXPECTEDLY, UNANTICIPATED, RARE or SELDOM…not much surprise there. Or refers to any HUMAN-LIKE image or figure, such as a DOLL, or a doll-like figure used today as a plugging orifice, blow-up adult toy. Note to the never-married: plugging any orifice of one's spouse will normally not last your entire lifetime together, just as the sages were trying to tell us. SPOUSE as「person with/as Pan paniscus」is also an apt interpretation, quite often and in many cases (no one here, though…), noting that chimpanzees do not normally have rear-side tails.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: accidental; image; pair; mate
Japanese EDRDG: accidentally, even number, couple, man and wife, same kind
Unihan extended: accidentally, coincidently; an idol

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.