層 stratum, layer, tier; floor, storey (of a building); social class, echelon 尸,曽,曾,

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尸

シ,かたしろ corpse, excretion squatting, buttocks

　MOVEMENT with ORIFICE
…or: ERECT with IN-AND-OUT
　

曽

ソウ,ゾウ,かつ,かつて,すなわち breached, penetrated wall and broken barrier, once, one and only one time, past tense indicator, a sign of something in the past, already happened, three generations removed, a descendant as in a great-grandchild, an ancestor as in a great-grandparent, a breached breech, just great

　SPURTING SHAFTS STANCE, PERCOLATING, GUSHING HOT FLUIDS FROM HOLLOW SHAFT and FILL COMPLETELY, PERFECTLY FULL SCREWING within CAVITY and EMIT UPWARD SPURTING with TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH
…or: SPURT UP and PLUGGED FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT, MANY ORIFICES, CLAMOUR, PROTOPLASM SLIME, DARK RED PIGMENT with HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
　

曾

ソウ,ゾウ,かつ,すなわち breached, penetrated wall and broken barrier, once, one and only one time, past tense indicator, a sign of something in the past, already happened, three generations removed: a descendant, as in a great-grandchild, or, an ancestor, as in a great-grandparent, a breached breech

　SPURTING SHAFT STANCE PERCOLATING, GUSHING HOT FLUIDS FROM HOLLOW SHAFTS SUCH AS LAVA, HOLLOW LEGS OF A CAULDRON PLACED IN EMBERS, EJACULATED SEMEN and EMIT UPWARD with ACCUSE, ROWDY BEHAVIOR, JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES, a CAVITY, OPEN CONTAINER with TONGUING MOUTH, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING
　

Meanings of elements

BUTTOCKS EXCREMENT and BREACHED, PENETRATED WALL AND BROKEN BARRIER, ONE AND ONLY ONE TIME, PAST TENSE INDICATOR, SIGN OF SOMETHING IN THE PAST ALREADY HAPPENED, THREE GENERATIONS REMOVED, BREACHED BREECH

「Buttocks」and「breached, penetrated wall.」…recall that「buttocks」is a euphemism for us low-class, commoner-type humans when we are considered to be large, mobile chunks of flesh rather than sentient beings (so-called commoners are often depicted with the「buttocks」element, as in the glyph for「citizen」民). Depicts the layers of SOCIAL CLASSES, not one layer added on top of the lower layers, but instead the lower layers are INSERTED BENEATH the existing UPPER CLASS, and that raises up the top layers of SOCIETAL POSITIONS. Modern form is「buttocks changing state, or two with loose and dripping stench cloud」(层) that also means REPEATED, MORE OF THE SAME IS COMING. Each STOREY in a building normally can be accessed only by a large「breach」between storeys, a large hole in the floor normally with a jagged-looking staircase attached, something not commonly remembered other than by building contractors and architects. While the imagery is crude, the「buttocks」is physically above the vagina when a female is in the traditional Chinese position for enabling coitus, the lordosis position, with the right element depicting a「torn breached perineum」that represents the hole to which a staircase (jagged flesh attached to the anus) would be attached when the analogy is applied to a building. The meaning REPEATED needs no further explanation, nor do BED, BEDDING or STREAM, STREAMING, although it should be pointed out that just as in society, the normal progression is from bottom to top, and not returning to a lower level without encountering severe difficulties (which is not to say it never happens). See 番 and all its Used-in glyphs.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: layer; stratum; laminated; floor (of a building); storey; classifier for layers; repeated; sheaf (math.)
Japanese EDRDG: stratum, social class, layer, story, floor
Unihan extended: storey, layer, floor, stratum

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.