蜡 wax, candle, waxy, glazed; maggots 虫,昔,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショ　･　ワ　･　ジャ　･　セキ　･　シャク
SHO　･　WA　･　JA　･　SE　KI　･　SHA　KU

Kun-yomi

うじむし
u　ji　mu　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

昔

セキ,シャク,むかし in the beginning, former, long ago, antiquity; a decade

　COOPERATIVE, COOPERATING, PILED IN LAYERS with TONGUING ACTIONS, TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: PILED ON and DAY
…or: many people FOLLOWING SUBMISSIVELY PASSING THROUGH A GAP, TO OBEY, ENGAGE IN ACTIONS JOINING AN ACCESSORY with TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
　

Meanings of elements

INSECT and PILED ON TOP with SUCKING MOUTH
…or: FORMER CONDITION of INSECT
…or: INSECT LONG AGO
…or: INSECT ORGY, COOPERATIVE TONGUING ACTIONS

「Insects in a former condition」are MAGGOTS, insect larvae that tend to pile on top of each other in an「insect orgy-like fashion」and can only suck juices to take in nourishment.
A WAX, GLAZE used to make CANDLES is extracted from the bodies of scale insects. These scale insects create「piles on top」of branches resembling a fish scale, and have sharp bristly mouth parts for piercing and sucking juices from the host plant:
「Chinese wax is a white to yellowish-white, gelatinous, crystalline water-insoluble substance obtained from the wax secreted by certain insects. It resembles spermaceti but is harder, more friable, and with a higher melting point. It is deposited on the branches of certain trees by the scale insect Ceroplastes ceriferus, common in China and India, or a related scale insect, Ericerus pela, of China and Japan. The insects and their secretions are harvested and boiled with water to extract the raw wax. The insect bodies, which settle to the bottom, are used as food for swine. Chinese wax is used chiefly in the manufacture of polishes, sizes, and candles.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wax 2013-09-09 ]
See https://www.nature.com/articles/srep08141 for a description of Chinese scale maggots and insects, stunningly analogous to Chinese service providers with no-longer-integrated feet.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: candle; wax
Japanese EDRDG: wax, candle, waxy, glazed, maggot
Unihan extended: wax; candle; waxy, glazed; maggot; as a non-simplified form sometimes used as an equivalent to 䄍, meaning imperial harvest

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.