榎 sitting in the lotus position; hackberry; bendable, pliable; naïve, easily deceived; plain and simple, unsophisticated, frank, plain-spoken 相,一,′,夊,木,夏,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カ
KA

Kun-yomi

えのき
e　no　ki

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相

ソウ,ショウ,あい～ doing something together, each other, both or all sides, mutually; government minister; aspect, phase, physical appearance or description, observation (of something or someone)

　WOODY and EYES, the GOAL
　

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
　

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夊

スイ,ゆき heels over head, place over and above head or beside ears; to be delayed by an offer that cannot be refused; full access, restrictions lifted

　SPREAD FEET (extended above head)
　

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

夏

カ,ガ,ゲ,なつ summer, hot, body heated, season or time of near or total nudity

　FACE DOWNWARD with HEAD TAUT and TIGHT WITH SPRING-LIKE ACTION
…or: RECIPROCATING ROD MOTION HORIZONTALLY, AN ARRAY, INDICATES EXTENT and CEREBRAL FRONTAL LOBE, PERSONALLY MYSELF with SPREAD FEET, HEAD CROTCH, STARTING AND STOPPING, BE DELAYED BY SOMETHING
　

Meanings of elements

ARRAYED with emphasis on BOTH SIDES MUTUALLY, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, OBSERVATION OF SOMETHING and HEELS OVER THE HEAD, PLACE OVER AND ABOVE HEAD, DELAYED BY AN OFFER THAT CANNOT BE REFUSED, FULL ACCESS, RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
…or: WOODY and BODY HEATED, TIME OF NUDITY

「Body heated woody」: while the true nature of a lotus 'tree' may be consigned to mythology, if such a tree actually existed, these elements reflect「woody heated」to describe the LOTUS POSITION in which a person, if naked, would be fully revealing his or her crotch to passers-by as「array of consciousness or face down, head in crotch, with woody.」Lotus plants and related concepts are fundamentally related to Buddhism. The lotus position involves sitting upon one's buttocks with the legs crossed in front (「heels above the penile head」) with each foot placed upon the opposite thigh (「both sides mutually」), clearly displaying one's wood, and potentially one's muck hole as well…lotus plants only grow immersed in thick wet muck.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: (evergreen shrub); Celtis sinensis
Japanese EDRDG: lotus tree, nettle tree, hackberry
Unihan extended: small evergreen shrub

Used within names (nanori)
え　･　えの

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.