鱩 hatahata, sandfish 魳,丷,ハ,田,魚,雷,

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Kun-yomi

はたはた
ha　ta　ha　ta

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魳

シ,ソウ,ぶり,はまち,かます barracuda

　FISH, SLIPPERY MEAT and ACTION OF EXCRETING, DEFECATING AND/OR URINATING
　

丷

× emit upward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
　

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

田

デン,た plugged and filled orifice or cavity, wet area for implanting, wetlands, moist night soil, rice paddy, muck pool, slurry pit; public use, many orifices

　TEN in ORIFICE
…or: MANY, MANY ORIFICES
…or: BLOCKED, FILLED, SCREWING and ORIFICE, ENCLOSURE
…or: SOIL in CAVITY
…or: PENIS inverted in SPREAD LEGS
　

魚

ギョ,うお,さかな,～ざかな aquatic animals (refers not necessarily solely to "fish" in the modern cladistic sense, and includes cetaceans); wet and slippery meat, fishy smell, to catch a sucker

　HEAD AND NECK with CLOSED ORIFICE and MANY EMISSIONS
…or: DANGER, LOOKING UP and FILLED MOUTH with MANY EMISSIONS
…or: HEAD SLIDING and ROLLING, GASPING in SLURRY, MUCK ORIFICE with MANY EMISSIONS
…or: HEAD SLIDING and GASPING in RICE PADDY with MANY EMISSIONS
　

雷

ライ,かみなり,いかずち,いかづち lightning, thunder (caused by lightning, generally), seeing the god of thunderbolts and lightning, terror, baited trap, sea or land mine, snare for the unsuspecting or unwary; to explode with noise and violence

　HEAVEN'S DEW, STICKY FLUIDS INSIDE SPREAD LEGS and PLUGGING ORIFICE
　

Meanings of elements

FISH, WET AND SLIPPERY MEAT and LIGHTNING, THUNDER, TERROR, BAITED TRAP, SEA OR LAND MINE, SNARE FOR THE UNSUSPECTING OR UNWARY

「SANDFISH (hatahata) is really sticky and [a] strange-looking fish because it doesn't have any scales. What [is] the most famous about Hata-hata is its egg, buriko. It is really big about to explode, and the taste is chewy and jelly like.」
[ https://recipes.fandom.com/wiki/Hatahata 2023-15-18 ]
A fish that, while having a fine flavor, is not a divine supernatural deity in any sense. Elements individually are「fish of forceful speaking, thunderous speech」…fish normally do not speak often, so this combination results not from actual language ability, but instead with the huge mouth it seems to display, as if it could expound on some subject for a long time…but the mouth is not actually so large. The gill slits on each side of its head nearly connect with each other under the animal's jaw, and when cooked after the flesh has softened considerably, the narrow connection to the lower jaw invariably breaks loose, creating what appears to be an enormous mouth (and, it is certain that cooked fish never speak at all).

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.