蝮 venomous snake, viper, asp, adder, copperhead; insect 虫,复,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

フク
FU　KU

Kun-yomi

まむし
ma　mu　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

虫

チュウ,キ,むし snake, worm, caterpillar, insect, larva, bugs, pathogens, corkscrew demons, lower life form, to have a lover, person with a particular undesirable characteristic

　ROD in ORIFICE with REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DRIP
…or: TWO-SIDED LOOSE and DRIPPING
…or: ORIFICE BITING and DRIPPING
…or: MOUTH and TAIL
…or: SHORT LEG in VULVA
…or: WITHIN, AMONG and HEAD UP AND IN with emphasis
　

复

× repeat, do it again, double, reply, overlap, to compound, duplicate, to go and come back, flip over and do again

　SUPINE, SEGMENT OF ROD HEAD SLIDING with TONGUING MOUTH and HEAD IN CROTCH, INVERTED SPREAD FEET
　

Meanings of elements

SNAKE, WORM, CATERPILLAR, INSECT, LARVA and REPEAT, DO IT AGAIN

Suggests the manner in which a copperhead snake and other viperids often employ a warning bite when stepped on or agitated and inject a relatively small amount of venom, if any at all, but with a「do it again, repeated」bite if the first proves insufficient to deter an attacker. A snake bites and injects venom through two hollow spurting shafts (the front fangs) as one appendage spewing venom with another repeating that same action. Insects do seem to retrace their own steps often while confirming pheromone trails. Male snakes also are equipped with hemipenes, a forked penis that gives the appearance of being capable of「doing it again.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: insect; poisonous snake (archaic)
Japanese EDRDG: viper, adder, asp
Unihan extended: venomous snake, viper

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.