酷 torrid, ruthless, brutal, terrible, cruel, intense, severe, strict, harsh, astringent 吅,牛,⺧,口,酉,告,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コク
KO　KU

Kun-yomi

ひど(い
hi　do　i

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吅

× juxtaposed orifices, rowdy behavior; female-female relations

　multiple ORIFICES, MOUTHS
　

牛

ギュウ,うし cattle, herd meat asset, animal husbandry, beef meat, important thing, a cash cow, female animals providing milk and meat, animals as a store of future value and medium of exchange

　HEAD with TALENT
…or: HEAD on ROD VERTICAL TWICE
…or: HEAD with TWO HANDS
…or: PRONE and SCREWING
…or: ROD with HORSE
　

⺧

× HTML entity: ⺧ giving notice, a 'red flag' of attention; withdrawal, pull-out; cattle, beef meat, important thing, herded meat stock, a cash cow, female animals providing milk and meat, animals as a store of future value and medium of exchange

　SUPINE PERSON and ROD UP
…or: HEAD with NIGHT SOIL
…or: IMPORTANT CHATTEL LIVESTOCK
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

酉

ユウ,とり cock, cocky, wine in jar, wine jar, bird

　TIPSY UNSTABLE STANCE on ORIFICE in LATERAL MOTION
…or: ONE COPULATING with ONE IN WINE JAR
…or: BALD ARRAY of ORIFICES
…or: ONE COPULATING with ROD SEGMENT, INDICATES WIDTH OR EXTENT in ORIFICE
　

告

コク,つ make a statement, inform, give notice, to announce; a revelation, to confess, to propose, to accuse, female copulatory-masturbatory vocalization

　IMPORTANT THING with MOUTH
…or: CHATTEL MEAT HERD ASSET with ORIFICE
…or: RED FLAG, WITHDRAWAL and ORIFICE
…or: PULL-OUT of MOUTH
…or: HEAD with FECES and ORIFICE
…or: PROSTRATE with ROD UP and ORIFICE
　

Meanings of elements

COCK, COCKY with FEMALE VOCALIZATION, WITHDRAW FROM ORIFICE
…or: WINE IN JAR and TO CONFESS, TO PROPOSE, TO ACCUSE, HERD ASSET ORIFICE
…or: EMERGES from COCK ORIFICE
…or: ALCOHOL EMERGING from ORIFICES
…or: COCKY while MAKING A STATEMENT, INFORM, GIVE NOTICE, A REVELATION

「Cock」「wine」with「female vocalization during copulation or masturbation」informs those nearby of TORRID sex, HARSH and INTENSE, perhaps CRUEL and BRUTAL…screaming due to intense pain and/or pleasure.
What「emerges from cock rooster orifice」is bird feces, normally highly alkaline when eating their normal diet, an ASTRINGENT, TORRID and caustic. Bird feces that remain on an automobile's paint finish are powerful enough to etch the enamel coating,「announcing」to any onlooker that feces were there even after washing.
ASTRINGENTS are used to disinfect a diseased area of the body or other places rife with bacteria.
Highly concentrated「alcohol」that「informs, withdraw from mouth」(any mixture that contains approximately 60% or more of ethyl alcohol), is TORRID, seems to burn one's mouth, throat, and stomach lining, an ASTRINGENT, HARSH and INTENSE, which will often involuntarily be spat out (「withdraw from mouth」) if someone attempts to drink it (that is, without ice or a nice mixer, let's say). And certainly the smell of「booze pulled out from mouth」with「inform」anyone nearby of what you have been doing.
A drunk may「inform」about many CRUEL things loudly, and the HARSH, INTENSE smell of「alcohol may emerge from one's mouth」just as a drunk person may vomit up the booze: both are indicators of strong alcohol, and drunks are often CRUEL and cocky.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: ruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (of sb or sth) cool (loanword)
Japanese EDRDG: cruel, severe, atrocious, unjust
Unihan extended: strong, stimulating; very

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.