置 put in place, repeated at intervals, install, placement, remain as is, leave behind, leave a deposit 罒,直,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

チ
CHI

Kun-yomi

お(く　･　～お(き
o　ku　･　～o　ki

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

罒

モウ,ボウ,あみがしら,よこめ netting, weaving within spread legs, snare, claptrap

　THE GOODS as ARRAY OF ORIFICES
…or: SPREAD LEGS with WEAVING INSIDE
…or: CONTAINMENT SURROUNDING a SPURTING ROD
　

直

チョク,ジキ,ジカ,ただ,なお,～なお,す direct, straight, vertically erect; immediate, soon, nearby; right-angled, upright, square, proper, honest; to correct, repair, fix, heal, do over, do again, revise, convert; hanged by the neck, fear of execution, headlong (neck elongated, head first, rush into death), neck stretched

　PALM DOWN with FRONTAL LOBE OF BRAIN and ARRAYED
…or: TWISTING and HANGED with EYES
　

Meanings of elements

NET WITHIN SPREAD LEGS to CORRECT, REPAIR, FIX, HEAL, DO OVER, REVISE
…or: LEGS NET with SCREWING as GOAL, EYES DIRECTLY ON the FEAR OF DEATH SOON

「Netting in spread legs」with「directly, hanged, heal, revise」as in TO PLACE, INSTALL a net directly on the infected body part for something you wish to trap (such as escaping fluids, stench) and to apply a poultice, then LEAVE IT THERE and let it REMAIN AS IS for a while, but REPEATED, REPLACING IT AT INTERVALS particularly after LEAVING A DEPOSIT within the poultice.
「Netting between legs」with「directly, hanged」as in TO PLACE, PUT, INSTALL a net or snare directly in the path of something you wish to entrap (such as an animal), and then LEAVE IT THERE and let it REMAIN AS IS, awaiting your return at a later time. If the snare successfully entraps some meat, it will then REMAIN AS IS, suspended from a tree limb or sapling (the spring of your snare), hanging straight down as does someone「hanged by the neck」or a severed head, for example, later to be suspended in a fleshpot.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to install; to place; to put; to buy
Japanese EDRDG: placement, put, set, deposit, leave behind, keep, employ, pawn
Unihan extended: place, lay out; set aside

Used within names (nanori)
おき　･　おけ　･　き

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.