屎

Derived characters

 * 䐖 𡳁 𡳛

Glyph origin
. The component was originally three (, representing, as seen in ), four (, representing ) or five dots (as seen in ) forming a ideogrammic representation of faeces in the oracle bone script, with four dots being the most common variant, thus representing a man defecating with faeces coming out of the backside. The Shang dynasty variants saw the ("body") component interchangeable with  ("human"); later, by the Western Zhou dynasty,  variants with four dots became the dominant and sole-surviving form, however examples from this time period also exist where the  component is mistaken for  ("tail"), as seen in. During the Warring States period, the component became corrupted into.

Shuowen Jiezi does not feature the 屎 character, however it does contain and. is listed in Shuowen as deriving from ("grass") and  ("stomach"), while  is listed as the ancient form of, however in reality this is not the case; 𡲴 is an erroneous form of the 屎 variant containing , where the tail portion of the  component is mistakenly written as. During the Zhou dynasty, 屎 was often used as a phonetic borrowing for ; moreover, during the Warring States period, the Chu script character for consisted of 屎 with an additional  (modern radical form ) added to represent the meaning of walking.

Following transition to the clerical script, a variety of alternative forms emerged: All of these variant forms failed to gain widespread usage, and eventually faded into obscurity while 屎 remained the dominant character variant.
 * The 米 component was replaced with phonetic component thus creating the variant form ;
 * Some variants added another radical to create  and ;
 * Existing variants containing the component became 𡲔 and 𡱵;
 * The body portion of also became further corrupted into, creating ;
 * The tail portion of -based variants became corrupted into, creating ;
 * The component corrupted into, creating ;
 * Even the variant form 𢈍 became corrupted, where the was simplified into, creating.

Etymology 1
From.

Definitions

 * 1) excrement; poop
 * 2) secretion from the body; tear, earwax, snot, etc.
 * 3) residue; waste; debris
 * 4)  worthless; useless; despicable
 * 5)  useless thing
 * 6)  bad; poor; of inferior quality

Etymology 2
This is a found in.

Kanji

 * 1) excrement, feces, poop

Etymology 1
→

From, from. Cognate with,.

Noun

 * 1)  feces, excrement

Derived terms

 * : dingleberry
 * : rheum, eye mucus

Idioms

 * : “to turn something into shit; to treat something as shit” → to make something worthless; to treat something as worthless
 * : “not even standing in the role of shit” → not even good for shit
 * (See : “to be useful, to play a role”)
 * : “both crap and miso together” → a situation where it is difficult to tell the good from the bad

Interjection

 * 1)  shit

Usage notes
This is not considered as profane as the English glosses. For instance, a child of five using the Japanese interjection kuso would be unremarkable, whereas it would be very socially inappropriate for a child of five to use the English interjection.

Etymology 2
Appears to derive from baby talk. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * : poopoo, poop, dookie
 * : something unclean

Idioms

 * : to sweep something under the rug → to hide a problem without actually dealing with it

Hanja