頓 kowtow deeply bowing; earnest, intently; pause; banging a foot; imbecile; not knowing what to do; a sucker; beatings, scolding 盹,一,′,ハ,ー,屯,頁,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

トン　･　トツ
TO　N　･　TO　TSU

Kun-yomi

にわか(に　･　とん(と　･　つまず(く　･　とみ(に　･　ぬかずく
ni　wa　ka　ni　･　to　n　to　･　tsu　ma　zu　ku　･　to　mi　ni　･　nu　ka　zu　ku

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

盹

シュン,× to doze, nap, to nod

　EYES and ENCOUNTERING DIFFICULTY
…or: GOAL, AIM and GARRISON OF GUARDS AT A GATEWAY
…or: GOAL of REPEATEDLY BOBBING PENIS in CAVITY
　

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
　

′

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

ー

× HTML entity: ー repeated, bobbing

　REPEATED BOBBING
　

屯

トン,× encountering difficulty, garrison of guards at a gateway, colony, tonnage, storage of war materiel

　REPEATEDLY BOBBING and BENT PENIS in CAVITY
…or: REPEATEDLY EMERGING PENIS
　

頁

ケツ,ぺえじ,おおがい,かしら head with face downward, to cogitate, facing, face, the head, page, one page of a book full of pages

　ARRAY of CEREBRAL FRONTAL LOBE EMISSIONS
…or: ROD, ONE SEGMENT with emphasis on EYEING GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: ROD with emphasis on FLESHPOT
…or: ARRAY of marked FLESHPOTS
　

Meanings of elements

DOZE, NAP, NOD with HORIZONTAL, ARRAY OF ITEMS, RECIPROCATING LATERAL ROD MOTION, ONE SEGMENT and with emphasis on AIM, GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATED HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN with PENIS in CAVITY SPROUTING, ENCOUNTERING DIFFICULTY, GARRISON OF GUARDS AT A GATEWAY, COLONY, TONNAGE, STORAGE OF WAR MATERIEL and with HEAD FACE DOWNWARD, COGITATE

[Elements vary by font] Topmost stroke of left element (in some fonts) means「repeatedly bobbing one's head」with「penis in cavity」「facing downward.」Together with「sprouting head」(one still living and attached to the torso and not yet decapitated) depicting a KOWTOW before the emperor. In China, kneeling or lying prostrate and while down on the floor, touching your forehead to the floor three times, returning to a standing position, then kneeling and kowtowing again, etc., also performed three times (the「three kneelings and nine kowtows」) showed the utmost EARNEST respect. This was performed just after receiving an order and just prior to carrying out the instructions INTENTLY, to mean IMMEDIATELY. Somewhat contradictorily, the time required to kowtow constituted a PAUSE in the action, so this meaning is also used. The literal usage of the elements of「a dolt, bobbing head up and down, popping it up like a sprout or on a penis in sheath of foreskin cavity」also refers to being an IDIOT, IMBECILE, IGNORAMUS, or AT WIT'S END NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO NEXT, suggesting a group of guards being SCOLDED and BEATEN for horsing around with one another and/or falling asleep.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
Japanese EDRDG: suddenly, immediately, in a hurry
Unihan extended: pause, stop; bow, kowtow; arrange

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.