喿 intensity, intensely chirping, wafting odor vapor or smoke, chicks twittering 品,十,ハ,木,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ソウ　･　ショウ
SO　U　･　SHO　U

Kun-yomi

さわ(ぐ　･　かしま(しい　･　すき
sa　wa　gu　･　ka　shi　ma　shi　i　･　su　ki

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

品

ヒン,ホン,しな the merchandise, fungibles, commodities, goods, quality, grade, rank

　(many, many) ORIFICES, JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES in all positions
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

Meanings of elements

MANY ORIFICES, THE GOODS or MERCHANDISE with WOODY
…or: MANY MOUTHS around SCREWING EMISSIONS

Oldest forms of this glyph are「many mouths, orifices」surrounding「woody, screwing emissions.」Speculation exists that the meaning of INTENSE derives from that sort of a communal gathering, as the elements were specifically selected by the sages to depict the quintessential experience of INTENSITY. Scholars will tell you that this element is many bird「mouths up in a treetop」since normally, the most common mouth in a tree is that of a bird, apart from locusts and caterpillars perhaps, and many birds in one tree can make an INTENSE amount of noise, particularly during an approaching typhoon or at dusk (see all the Used-In glyphs). CHIRPING of bird chicks may also represent「the merchandise when seeing a woody」and hoping to be the one selected for purchase or short-term rental (improves ranking among the other birds), CHIRPING INTENSELY to be noticed by the client. Glyph may have started this old English joke: Q.「Do you smoke after sex?」A.「I don't know, I never looked…」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: chirping of birds
Japanese EDRDG: chirping of birds
Unihan extended: chirping of birds

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.