死 death, damned, deathtrap, rigor mortis, rigid corpse, blocked passageway, unable to overcome 一,夕,乚,ノ,丶,ㄅ,歹,匕,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ
SHI

Kun-yomi

し(ぬ　･　し(に～
shi　nu　･　shi　ni～

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

夕

セキ,ゆう dusk, evening activities, volume of a human swallow, skewed

　CLEVER with HEAD SLIDING
…or: HEAD SLIDING with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT emphasis within
…or: HEAD AND NECK with emphasis
　

乚

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

　APPENDAGE CAPABLE OF SPEWING VENOM
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

ㄅ

× tension, gasping, taut spring-like action, painful stress, bound foot

　ELASTIC POTENTIAL STRAIN ENERGY, FLEXIBLY BENDED AND SPRINGY, FLECTURE TENSION
　

歹

ガツ,ガチ,タイ,× depraved, vicious, evil, infected, dead meat, flesh and bone being removed from within meat, denuded

　ROD with SKEWED, SLANTING TO ONE SIDE, DIPPED, HEAPING TABLESPOON OF FLUIDS
…or: ARRAYED at SUPPERTIME
…or: ROD with EVENING ACTIVITIES
…or: ROD and HEAD SLIDING within NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT WRAPPER
　

匕

ヒ,さじ must remain sitting most of the time, device for scooping fluids, used for piercing or stabbing into

　REPEATED, BOBBING HEAD with PENIS
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL merged with PENIS
…or: ARRAYED for PENIS
　

Meanings of elements

DEPRAVED EVIL and SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: ROD with HEAD SLIDING within NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT WRAPPER of SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: FLESH HANGING FROM BONES of FALLEN PERSON
…or: ROD with EVENING ACTIVITIES and SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: ROD DAMMED and SLIDING HEAD on PENILE APPENDAGE

「Flesh removed from the bones of a fallen person」leave a skeleton, DEATH. Left element perhaps is the glyph for「depraved」or「bone removed from meat.」Other element combinations as listed likely need no explanation generally as death resulting from a chronic infection picked up at a brothel or a buddy: the completed contract method of death.
　「Array of meat falling off of sitting concubine with bound feet」or gangrene:「The tightness of the binding meant that the circulation in the feet was faulty, and the circulation to the toes was almost cut off, so any injuries to the toes were unlikely to heal and were likely to gradually worsen and lead to infected toes and rotting flesh. If the infection in the feet and toes entered the bones, it could cause them to soften, which could result in toes dropping off. Although, this was seen as a benefit because the feet could then be bound even more tightly. Girls whose toes were more fleshy would sometimes have shards of glass or pieces of broken tiles inserted within the binding next to her feet and between her toes to cause injury and introduce infection deliberately. Disease inevitably followed infection, meaning that death from septic shock could result from foot-binding, and a surviving girl was more at risk for medical problems as she grew older.」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17　]　

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely
Japanese: death, decease, death penalty, to die, dying, dead, useless, damned, body, corpse, remains, to let die, mortal, verge of death, brink of death, at the point of death, almost dead, about, at some limit
Unihan extended: die; dead; death
EDRDG: death; die

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.