獅 lion, spraying urine, rubbing secretions of glands on objects, roaring 犭,師,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シ
SHI

Kun-yomi

しし
shi　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

犭

× canid (male dog or female bitch), pig, animal, beast

　HEAD REPEATED in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

師

シ,ス,もろもろ,なら army, expert, teacher, master of something, religious leader

　HANDSOME CHIEF with ROD
…or: ANUS, RECTUM, BACKSIDE ORIFICE(S), HANDSOME, ATTRACTIVE and FOLLOW AROUND, MOVE SOMETHING IN A CIRCULAR MOTION, TO SCREW, SCREWING ACTION OF EXCRETING DEFECATING AND/OR URINATING
…or: ASSHOLE with ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS
…or: ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS of RECTAL ORIFICE
…or: PROCEPTIVE FEMALE IN POSITION with HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL RECIPROCATING ROD MOTIONS in SPREAD LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

HAIRY BEAST with EXCRETION
…or: ANIMAL, BEAST, PIG, DOG and EXPERT, MASTER OF SOMETHING

「Hairy animal that excretes」is the master animal, the LION as the KING OF BEASTS. Male lions do not normally hunt nor defend territory, the females do that. Male lions as the king or master of beasts merely doze, eat, excrete, and copulate with the female lions in the harem all day long, or battle intruding male lions in order to save access to the harem:「[Lion prides:]…the largest can number up to 40, but the norm is around 15. The essential thing about pride structure is that all the females are related: mothers, daughters, aunts, cousins. Only under very rare circumstances do distantly related or unrelated females team up. In fact, there is no hard evidence at this time, which indicates that unrelated females will accept each other long enough to form an enduring pride, that is, one with generations and a more or less stable range. …Once established with a pride, males are usually able to scrounge food from the females, but they also have pride duties: males have to patrol and mark their territory by spraying urine, rubbing secretions of glands on objects, and roaring.」
[ https://www.thebigcats.com/lion/lion_social.htm 2014-07-15, emphasis ours ] Tough life for the king, eh? not so unlike humans, the bestial king that shits and pisses on everyone and everywhere, leaving his scent. Hopefully, not to be confused with「lion-dogs」(狛) or other amalgamations.

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

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.