僣 usurp, overstep one's authority, to do something that is not suitable for you, to take the position and duties of another 伕,夫,㚘,曰,亻,替,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シン　･　セン
SHI　N　･　SE　N

Kun-yomi

せん(する　･　おご(る
se　n　su　ru　･　o　go　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

伕

フ,むすめむこ common laborer, slave-like, working non-stop with both hands at once, daughter living with both a husband and her father

　CORE of HUMANITY
…or: PERSON and ADULT MAN, HUSBAND, CONSCRIPTED LABORER
…or: ROD HEAD SLIDING with TWO and ERECTION TAUT
…or: BENEVOLENT with MALE PERSONS
　

夫

フ,フウ,ブ,おっと,それ adult man; husband; that; conscripted laborer

　PERSON in CHANGING STATE
…or: ROD TAUT with HAND
…or: a BIG ONE
…or: a BIG ROD
…or: ROD in BOTH HANDS
　

㚘

× buddies, a partner, a companion, to support, to prop up, to help a buddy

　ADULT MAN, HUSBAND and ADULT MAN, HUSBAND
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

替

タイ,か substitute for another, proxy, to take the place of the real thing, to swap, materially equivalent

　two ADULT MALES with TONGUING MOUTH, TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH
　

Meanings of elements

COMMON LABORER, SLAVE-LIKE with ADULT MAN, THAT and TONGUING SOMETHING, TONGUE IN A MOUTH, SPEAK, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
…or: PERSON with BUDDY, A PARTNER COMPANION, TO SUPPORT, HELP A BUDDY with one's TONGUING MOUTH
…or: PERSON and with SUBSTITUTE FOR ANOTHER, TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THE REAL THING, TO SWAP, MATERIALLY EQUIVALENT
…or: ROD HEAD SLIDING and two ADULT MALES with TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, HAVING A REASON
…or: PROXY with ROD HEAD

「Swapping for a person」: right element reveals more of the story, as surreptitious swapping for a service provider, USURPING that position.「Commoners talking」indicates USURPING the position of the government, overstepping one's authority (if serfs actually have any).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to overstep one's authority; to usurp
Japanese EDRDG: boastfully usurp
Unihan extended: assume, usurp

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.