策 countermeasures, policy, plan, tactic, scheme, means to do; horsewhip 竹,朿,

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サク
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竹

チク,たけ bamboo, bowing over, kowtowing, lordosis, flexible

　HEAD DOWN with PROSTRATE STREAM
…or: HEAD of ROD DOWN and HEAD OF MALE BLASTING DISCHARGE
　

朿

シ,とげ a prick, to prick, pricking; thorn, stab; tapered; painful condition

　WOODY INSIDE SPREAD LEGS
…or: TREE INSIDES
　

Meanings of elements

BAMBOO, FLEXIBLE with PRICK, TO PRICK, PRICKING, STAB, TAPERED
…or: BOWING OVER, KOWTOWING, LORDOSIS, FLEXIBLE with A PRICK, TO PRICK, PRICKING THORN, STAB, TAPERED, PAINFUL CONDITION
…or: HEAD of MALE and PROSTRATE with STREAMING and WOODY within SPREAD LEGS

「Bamboo pricks」used for repairing gaps and holes in exterior mud or clay walls used in older Asian structures by weaving them into a lattice shape and using the pricked ends for easy attachment to the existing material, later filling the gaps with clay, a COUNTERMEASURE and PLAN, a MEANS TO quickly repair damage in stucco clay walls, an age-old method of construction employed worldwide.
A「bamboo prick」used for prodding and whipping a horse while riding: in the West, a rider's crop. The prick was the MEANS TO URGE a horse run faster as a COUNTERMEASURE against lethargy, including common POLICY, TACTICS, SCHEME and PLAN to use a horsewhip as a standard tool, based primarily on its extreme effectiveness when applied swiftly to bare naked human skin also, as well as the low cost and plethora of raw materials for its manufacture.「Prick with lordosis position」needs no explanation as common POLICY, TACTICS, SCHEME and PLAN…or as a COUNTERMEASURE of some sort, nor does「head of male prostrate with streaming and woody within spread legs.」…whipping one's horse (see 馬 for details).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy
Japanese EDRDG: scheme, plan, policy, step, means
Unihan extended: scheme, plan; to whip; urge

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.