鼠 rat, mouse, rodent; high rate of breeding, population increase, children 臼,レ,一,冫,乚,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ソ　･　ショ
SO　･　SHO

Kun-yomi

ねずみ　･　ねず
ne　zu　mi　･　ne　zu

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

臼

キュウ,グ,うす,うすづ cavity with two sets of lips, any space between bones, place for pounding and grinding, trap, mortar, mincing raw meat

　CAVITY with TWO SETS OF LIPS
…or: REPEATEDLY ROD(S) in CAVITY
…or: BOBBING HEAD with ROD RAISED and FIRM GRASP
…or: multiple DISEASED PENIS, SWINE'S SNOUT, PIG'S HEAD, DOG SNOUT (as euphemisms) within CAVITY
　

レ

× HTML entity: レ chew, masticate, bite; raised feet; mattock

　VERTICAL MOTION, ROD with HEAD UP AND IN
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

冫

ヒョウ,こおり drip by drip; cooling process, congeal, change between two physical states, to freeze up, cease motion

　variant of TWO
…or: emphasis marker DRIP with HEAD SLIDING
　

乚

イン,オン,かく,かか,よ appendage capable of spewing venom; concealed threat

　APPENDAGE CAPABLE OF SPEWING VENOM
　

Meanings of elements

TRAPPED, MINCING MEAT with DRIP BY DRIP or ONCE and ONCE AGAIN with multiple GNAWING and with PENIS, TAIL
…or: CAVITY HAVING TWO SETS OF LIPS and TURGID-FLACCID PENIS, DRIP BY DRIP in MULTIPLE RAISED LEGS

A MOUSE or a RAT:「in trap, or, grinding bowl, mortar, mincing」(the gnawing teeth) with「drip by drip, once and once again」with two「gnawing, biting」elements and a「tail」for incessant copulation. Female RATS as mammals are equipped naturally with a cavity having two set of lips, a vagina, and male rats with a penis appendage (as ㇂ or 乚).
「Cavity with two sets of lips and two raised legs (or, inverted no-longer-integrated feet) with tail」describes the soft and furry mouse-like spot of a newly pubescent female (see 子) known also as another much larger rodent, the beaver, after further years of maturity and extended use.
「Norway rats, roof rats, and house mice are the rodents most commonly found living in close association with man. They are called commensal rodents, referring to the fact that they live at man's expense without giving anything in return. Rats have very high reproductive rates. A pair of rats and their offspring could produce 1,500 more rats in only one year if they all survived. Rats breed at 3 to 5 months of age, carry their young for 21 to 33 days and have 6 to 12 young per litter, and 4 to 7 litters per year. The actual figures within these ranges depend on the availability of food, the density of rats in an area and the age of the female rat. Although one female rat may produce up to 84 young in a year, on the average about 20 young per female per year survive to maturity. Female rats can breed again 1 to 2 days after giving birth. Breeding occurs all year…. Mice mature rapidly and by 1.5 to 2 months of age are old enough to reproduce.」
[ now-dead link was https://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG369/notes/commensal_rodents.html 2013-09-09 so instead see [ https://www.vancouverwildlife.com/rats/rat-facts/ 2023-05-18 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: rat; mouse
Japanese EDRDG: rat, mouse, dark gray
Unihan extended: rat, mouse

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.