氷 freeze; ice; frigid; congealing, hardening slowly ㄅ,亅,匕,丶,水,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ヒョウ
HYO　U

Kun-yomi

こおり　･　ひ　･　こお(る
ko　o　ri　･　hi　･　ko　o　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

ㄅ

× tension gasping taut spring-like action, unbound busted foot of dynastic China, painful stress

　ELASTIC POTENTIAL STRAIN ENERGY, FLEXIBLY BENDED AND SPRINGY, FLECTURE TENSION
　

亅

ケツ,かぎ downward flowing fluid stream; barbed

　STREAM
　

匕

ヒ,さじ must remain sitting most of the time, device for scooping fluids, used for piercing or stabbing into

　REPEATED, BOBBING HEAD of PENIS
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL merged with PENIS
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

水

スイ,みず,みず～ water (unheated)

　TENSION and STREAM with SITTING
　

Meanings of elements

marker on ROLLED, with STREAMING and SITTING PERSON

Emphasis on the「bound foot」element: COLD, with the blood circulation effectively stopped. Most clients accessing this part were also probably somewhat dismayed by cold feet (originally, in 1605,「cold on my feet」to mean not ready to be moving), literally「put off」by icy feet meat, getting cold feet as it were and not wanting to continue the contracted short-term rental, a chronic problem of the shamans for those first few clients of the session.
Looks like「water」but with just a bit more, an added marker stroke resembling a chip of ICE flying away. When water freezes, its volume expands by about 10%, thankfully decreasing its density (or else the oceans likely would fill completely with ICE). Possibly the marker stroke is marking an ICEBERG at the portion that protrudes from the ocean.
Perhaps that emphasis marker was placed above the「no-longer-integrated feet」element (匕 so popular in dynastic China) to depict the only time of the year when ICE was possible, before the days of ice makers and refrigeration machines:「The [foot binding] process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. Binding usually started during the winter months since the feet were more likely to be numb, and therefore the pain would not be as extreme.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: icicle, ice, hail, freeze, congeal
Unihan extended: ice, frost, icicles; cold

Used within names (nanori)
すい

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.