練 soften, knead, improve, preparatory work, training, refine, walk in parade 累,細,木,糸,柬,

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累

ルイ,× weary, involvement, tie up, encumber, roped together, complicit, incessant, repeated, accumulate; implicate, trouble

　PUBLIC USE, CLAMOUR, PROTOPLASM SLIME, DARK RED PIGMENT, PLUGGED FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT, MANY ORIFICES with STRINGY THREADS, VARIOUS PENILE EMISSIONS, HUMAN CONNECTION, RAW FISHY-SMELLING STUFF IN THIN STRIPS
　

細

サイ,ほそ,こま thin, slender, narrow; detailed, extremely fine, fine particulates, tiny grains

　STRINGY THREADS, VARIOUS PENILE EMISSIONS, HUMAN CONNECTION, RAW FISHY-SMELLING STUFF IN THIN STRIPS with PUBLIC USE, CLAMOUR, PROTOPLASM SLIME, DARK RED PIGMENT, PLUGGED FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT, MANY ORIFICES
　

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
　

糸

シ,いと stringy stinky and silk-like

　TINY SMALLEST YOUNGEST with EMISSION STREAM
　

柬

カン,ケン,えら an invitation from the lord of the land, landowner; one's host; unable to resist, inviting; split open; prime choice, selected, the chosen ones; packed hard, deflowering a virgin

　MANAGE, CONTROL, ADMINISTER some EMISSIONS
…or: WOODY EMISSIONS (in BOTH SIDES)
…or: WOODY in ORIFICE with emphasis on both sides of orifice
　

Meanings of elements

TROUBLE with WOODY and PLUGGING the ORIFICE
…or: NARROW, THIN WOODY in PLUGGING ORIFICE
…or: STRINGY THREADS, VARIOUS PENILE EMISSIONS, HUMAN CONNECTION, RAW FISHY-SMELLING STUFF IN THIN STRIPS and LORD OF THE LAND, ONE'S HOST, AN INVITATION, INVITING, UNABLE TO RESIST, PRIME CHOICE, SELECTED, PACKED OR POUNDED HARD
…or: EJACULATIONS with the CHOSEN, SELECTED
…or: THREADS CHOSEN, SELECTED
…or: PENILE EMISSIONS with DEFLOWERING A VIRGIN

An「invitation from the lord of the land」with「ejaculations」likely related in some way to deflowering his virginal harem concubines, to SOFTEN the blow in more ways than one, PREPARATORY WORK with a「narrow, slender woody」as training for the big event, with KNEADING massages to IMPROVE and slightly PREPARE the membrane for its grand opening.「Selected for penile emissions」prior to the official deflowering ceremony. TRAINING refers to repeated actions needed to control or guide towards a specific purpose or goal, IMPROVING the outcome by SOFTENING up a hard case.
As scholars say, perhaps refers to the process of「splitting open selected silk fibers that were bound to a tree to reveal the meat inside」those of silk caterpillar cocoons, in order to learn which cocoons were the most prized. The cocoons are SOFTENED by boiling and gentle KNEADING to loosen the fibers which CONDENSES the overall volume of material and boils down the water in the pot. The basic concept is that of the PREPARATION needed prior to making thread, which then applied to TRAINING and IMPROVEMENT as in learning from these experiences. By examining the meaty insides of the caterpillars, it was learned what diet is preferred and what foods will produce the finest silk.
「Ejaculations」with「binding」is another technique to SOFTEN and with gentle KNEADING to loosen the inside meat in PREPARATION, for example as one of the feudal lord's many concubines. This procedure served to「select the best candidates」and BOIL DOWN, CONDENSE the supply by carefully examining the meaty insides, which then applied to TRAINING and IMPROVEMENT as in learning from these experiences. Japanese variant reduces the right element stroke count by one.
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: practice, gloss, train, drill, polish, refine

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.