掞 easy, smooth, quiet, suave sophistication 扌,炎,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

エン　･　セン
E　N　･　SE　N

Kun-yomi

の(べる
no　be　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

扌

シュ,× talented, using both of one's hands to accomplish a task

　TALENT
…or: USING BOTH HANDS
…or: ARRAY of STREAMS with SLIDING HEAD IN
　

炎

エン,ほのお inflammation accompanying an illness, much burning, a burning sensation; two flaming together, glittering, dazzling, fiery; two buddies, spreading flames or inflammation

　ON FIRE AND BURNING (doubled)
　

Meanings of elements

TALENTED USE BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK with TWO FLAMING

It is unlikely that「using both hands on inflammation from an illness or to build a large fire」would cause anyone to feel suave, sophisticated, smooth, easy or quiet. It is more likely that「talented hands of two flaming」at the same time might cause admiration of SUAVE, SMOOTH sophistication to QUIETLY solve the problem between buddies of who's on first with a service provider, although in dynastic China that would not seem to have been an issue at all. So in this case, perhaps the hands would be used working simultaneously on one another providing services mutually: EASY, QUIET since no one else would be involved, and SUAVE SOPHISTICATION ('somewhat complicated but effectively performed' with 'smooth texture').

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: easy; quiet
Japanese EDRDG: easy, smooth, quiet, suave
Unihan extended: easy, smooth; quiet; suave

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.