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Gothic:
巖
巖

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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ガン
GA N
Kun-yomi
いわ ・ いわお ・ けわ(しい
i wa ・ i wa o ・ ke wa shi i

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Meanings of elements
ON THE VERGE of ROWDY JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES BLAMING and TRAGEDY
…or: EMERGE and TIGHTLY SEALED
…or: PEAKED and SOLEMN, MAJESTIC
…or: GLANS and HEARTLESS, STERN, SEVERE, ONE'S FATHER, AWFUL, AUSTERE
No matter how one looks at it, elements as a「tightly sealed and closed mountain」is the opposite of a cave or grotto. Nevertheless, the「glans of one's father, with two orifices and a stern severe hand」or「glans emerging from a tightly sealed place」or「glans in hand with rowdy blame and tragedy」will then form a CAVE, GROTTO after packing in the night soil of that second orifice. Of course, a「mountain severe, heartless, stern」is JAGGED, CRAGGY if one can ascribe human feelings anthropomorphically to mountains, yet a「glans emerging in severe condition」would easily appear JAGGED, CRAGGY if covered with sticky clay-like night soil…and so on for most combinations of these elements.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 岩
Japanese EDRDG: rock, crag, boulder
Unihan extended: cliff, precipice; cave, grotto

Used within names (nanori)
よし

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 2 entries


Chinese usage: 8 entries


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