閙 noisy quarrel, dispute hotly; cacophonous, to make noise, to disturb others, to vent oneself; to fall ill, to have an attack (of intestinal gas); to joke, to go in for some activity by joining another person 門,丶,帀,巿,市,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ドウ　･　トウ
DO　U　･　TO　U

Kun-yomi

さわが(しい
sa　wa　ga　shi　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

門

モン,かど,と the way further inside, entrance, gateway; teachings of a master, school of thought, methodology, section, division, clan; classifier for large blasts

　RECIPROCATING RODS in TONGUING MOUTHS with FLUID STREAMING
…or: TWO MEATS and PRETENDING with ROD STREAMING
…or: ROD STREAMING with many JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

帀

ソウ,めぐ route that ends at the same place it started, a cycle, a circuit, cyclical action; follow around, move something in a circular motion, to screw, screwing; action of excreting as in defecating and/or urinating

　RECIPROCATING LATERAL MOTION OF ROD STALK OR STEM WHILE HORIZONTAL, INDICATES WIDTH OR EXTENT, ONE SEGMENT with LOINCLOTH, CLOTH WRAPPING FOR ONE'S HEAD OF SOME SORT, LAP CLOTH, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION
…or: DOWN, ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS, SURROUNDING
　

巿

× screw; revolve, make the circuit, turn; knee pads; sacrificial actions

　SCREWING in SPREAD LEGS
…or: ARRAYED, ROD in LOINCLOTH
　

市

シ,いち market, place to trade barter buy and sell; city

　emphasis on EXCRETION
…or: COVER HEAD with LOINCLOTH
…or: PALMING the LOINCLOTH
…or: emphasis on ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

GATEWAY, METHODOLOGY, THE WAY IN AND OUT with MARKET, CITY, or with emphasis on EXCRETION

[Elements vary by font]「gateway to market」although most free markets did not want to restrict the foot traffic by installing fences and gateways around the perimeter and any hot disputes would not be at the entrance gate, most likely.「Gateway to the city market」where noisy and quarrelsome hot disputes would occur if entry was denied, or myriad other reasons.「Gateway into brothel market」perhaps as a public place for announcements and advertising. So, which markets did in fact have surrounding patrolled walls, gated entrances, guards and sentries placed there by the local authorities? DISPUTE HOTLY, NOISILY, QUARREL fits best with elements as「methodology, gates to short-term rental service providers in the meat market」with some folks being refused entry or being expelled, and an argument erupting over whether a potential client is sufficiently healthy to be admitted by the guards at the gateway to the brothel meat. Nevertheless, the original elements with given meanings clarify what is supposed to be occurring: a「battle while palming loincloth」that refers to a noise, joking, farting contest (no kidding), intestinal gas pains and release, and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: noisy
Unihan extended: quarrel; dispute hotly

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.