須 in all cases, must do, ought to have, essential and necessary, must wait, whiskers (pubic hairs) 彡,頁,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ス　･　シュ
SU　･　SHU

Kun-yomi

すべから(く　･　すべし　･　ひげ　･　まつ　･　もち(いる　･　もと(める
su　be　ka　ra　ku　･　su　be　shi　･　hi　ge　･　ma　tsu　･　mo　chi　i　ru　･　mo　to　me　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

彡

サン,セン,× short hairs, a pelt, fur, pay attention to, great care needed, delicate zone, hair ornamentation; many strokes

　MANY STROKES, REPEATED STROKES
　

頁

ケツ,ぺえじ,おおがい,かしら head with face downward, to cogitate, facing, face, the head, page, one page of a book full of pages

　ARRAY of CEREBRAL FRONTAL LOBE EMISSIONS
…or: ROD, ONE SEGMENT with emphasis on EYEING GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: ROD with emphasis on FLESHPOT
…or: ARRAY of marked FLESHPOTS
　

Meanings of elements

FUR PELT, PUBIC HAIR and LOOKING DOWN COGITATING
…or: SHORT HAIRS and HEAD FACING DOWNWARD

Suggests looking down and washing after sexual contact (澃) in order to mitigate the spread of disease and infection as an inviolate law, INVARIABLY, CERTAINLY, WITHOUT FAIL.「Pubic hair and cogitating while facing down」clearly describes conducting self-inspections periodically as NECESSARY IN ALL CASES, MUST DO, ESSENTIAL. And while everyone MUST WAIT for the growth of one's pubic hair at adolescence, it is also true that after contact, one MUST WAIT for the appearance of symptoms and therefore conducting inspections was vital. See the related glyph that describes washing as essential (湏) in all cases.
Don't forget that PUBIC HAIRS grow in armpits and on a man's face, places other than in and around the groin.
Chinese men were expected to grow long beards as ESSENTIAL and NECESSARY. Otherwise, a clean shaven man was thought to be a criminal, since the punishment for a misdemeanor was the forced shaving of a man's beard, giving notice and warning to all who might see him that a petty crime or misdemeanor had been committed, but since a beard would grow over time, the crime and the punishment might eventually be forgotten (just by WAITING), or, permit him to move to the city and start fresh.「Facing downward」would cause a man to see his own BEARD, but perhaps describing that the key to a happy relationship is to have one's partner's「pubic fur on face down」once in a while.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: must; to have to; to wait
Japanese EDRDG: ought, by all means, necessarily
Unihan extended: must, have to, necessary; moment; whiskers

Used within names (nanori)
もとむ　･　ぞ

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.