丼 deep clay-fired bowl traditionally used only for cooked rice with fried shrimp layered on top and sauce 丶,茻,㠭,井,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

トン　･　タン　･　ショウ　･　セイ
TO　N　･　TA　N　･　SHO　U　･　SE　I

Kun-yomi

どんぶり
do　n　bu　ri

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

茻

× community

　MANY EMERGING SHAFTS or LARGE BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: MANY RODS, ERECTIONS in CAVITIES, SHEATHS
　

㠭

× to open, to stretch, to extend, to unfold, to prolong, to dilate

　many, many CLOSED SEAMS OF SKIN, CRAFT AND SKILL NECESSARY TO PERFORM A JOB, PLANNING, TRADING ONE THING FOR ANOTHER
　

井

セイ,ショウ,い community, water well; lattice shape; all around

　many, many EMERGING SHAFTS
…or: many, many FLESH SEAMS
…or: ARRAY of ERECTION with SCREWING
　

Meanings of elements

marker within MANY EMERGING SHAFTS, or MANY FLESH SEAMS

Deep BOWL traditionally used in Japan only to hold cooked sticky rice (米) placed at the bottom, with other foods such as shrimp with tempura layered on top of that rice, then covered with sauce. Formerly, elements were an emphasis marker stroke in the center of four (many, many)「emerging shafts」(茻) that have spilled a plethora of sticky white seeds accumulated as if into a community bowl, but seemingly, not many others will acknowledge this fact today. A deep hollow that was dug into clay forming a cavity, with peeled fried shrimp layered over white seeds of rice grains (donburi) and dark fluids (tare, tsuyu sauces) collecting at the bottom. Other than「emerging shafts」(茻), some glyphs use 井 to replace many, many「flesh seams」(㠭) as the places of accumulating community sticky white seeds from emerging shafts. Porcelain material is used for the bowl…and the English 'porcelain' ultimately derives from the Latin meaning a porcine female or pig sow, and the shape of the bowl is that of both a cowrie shell and the sow's backside as result from being lain, that is, being served in her backside by boars:「According to an old theory, the connection of the shell and the pig is a perceived resemblance of the shell (also Venus shell) opening to the exposed outer genitalia of pigs.」 [ https://www.etymonline.com/word/porcelain 2020-12-01 ]
Which is why the bowl shape is filled with sticky white seeds covered by a brown sauce and fried shrimps having the shape of a community of curved male human penises, emphasis in the center at the bottom of the clay depression (where you will find brown sludge).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: bowl of food; well
Japanese EDRDG: bowl, bowl of food
Unihan extended: bowl of food; well

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.