診 diagnose, medical examination, medical treatment 言,㐱,

MingLiU:

Mincho:

Gothic:

診

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シン
SHI　N

Kun-yomi

み(る
mi　ru

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言

ゲン,ゴン,い,こと intercourse oral or otherwise, to say or speak words, sexual activity and foreplay

　MANY LINES with MOUTH
…or: MANY RODS with ORIFICE
…or: PALM on ROD with HORIZONTAL RECIPROCATING MOTIONS and ORIFICE
　

㐱

× black glossy bush hair

　PERSON with SHORT PELT HAIRS, FUR
…or: PERSON and MANY STROKES
　

Meanings of elements

FOREPLAY or SPEAK with PERSON and PUBIC HAIR, GLOSSY WET BUSH HAIR

Modern elements might be「speak」with a「person with many strokes」but there is no clue about the subject of the conversation…more likely,「foreplay in fine detail, intercourse with bush hair」meaning TO CONDUCT A MEDICAL EXAMINATION and perhaps DIAGNOSE any problems found prior to engaging in sexual activity with someone else in order to prevent becoming infected with a sexually transmissible disease…the old source glyph (鬒) included「the truth in bush hair」since causing an erection and witnessing any discharges will normally contain evidence of infection, if present. Diagnosing by personal close examination and obtaining an oral history every time is a best practice when engaging in non-monogamous sex with another human being.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to examine or treat medically
Japanese EDRDG: checkup, seeing, diagnose, examine
Unihan extended: examine patient, diagnose

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.