棘 thorns, biting, tooth cusp, jujube, splinters, hard sharp items, brambles, briars, conditions difficult to escape from, point where two arcs meet 林,冂,丨,ㄅ,朿,朿,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キョク
KYO　KU

Kun-yomi

いばら　･　とげ
i　ba　ra　･　to　ge

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

林

リン,はやし tree grove, a cluster or grouping of similar trees of the same species; a member's circle of a specific group of people, a collection of similar things as a cluster of people

　TREE GROVE, WOODIES
　

冂

キョウ,ケイ,× widely spread legs, surrounding outer edge

　VERTICAL RECIPROCATING MOTION, ROD with TENSION TIGHT SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

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
　

朿

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

　WOODY INSIDE SPREAD LEGS
…or: TREE INSIDES
　

朿

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

　WOODY INSIDE SPREAD LEGS
…or: TREE INSIDES
　

Meanings of elements

GROVE, CLUSTER OR GROUPING OF SIMILAR SPECIES, MEMBER'S CIRCLE, SPECIFIC GROUP OF SIMILAR THINGS AS A CLUSTER with SPREAD LEGS, SURROUNDING the WOODIES
…or: multiple PRICKS with PAINFUL CONDITION
…or: multiple WOODIES with RECIPROCATING MOTIONS in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET, TENSE GASPS

「Pricks and more pricks」: the JUJUBE and its fruits:「The fruits and seeds are used in Chinese and Korean traditional medicine, where they are believed to alleviate stress, and traditionally for antifungal, antibacterial, antiulcer, anti-inflammatory, sedative, antispastic, antifertility/contraception, hypotensive and antinephritic, cardiotonic, antioxidant, immunostimulant, and wound healing properties.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube 2013-08-16 ]
Reddened and dried jujube fruits call to mind, remind one of a diseased glans, or one's woody worries (棯) from engaging two woodies (樲),「prick to prick.」Needless to point out perhaps is the fact that JUJUBES, a type of acidic DATE, bear a strong resemblance to diseased tissue caused by sexually transmitted infections, in particular the semi-dried condition of the fruits when compared with chancres, lesions, and a decrepit glans penis.「Multiple pricks with painful condition」: BITING, as a significant reason why shamans went to using no-longer-integrated feet rather than pre-teen mouths (with sharp teeth) for providing sexually-oriented services.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: thorns
Japanese EDRDG: thorn, splinter, spine, biting words, briers
Unihan extended: jujube tree; thorns, brambles

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.