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艮
艮

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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
コン ・ ゴン
KO N ・ GO N
Kun-yomi
うしとら
u shi to ra

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Meanings of elements
TONGUING MOUTH of BITING SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: ROD in ORIFICE ON RAISED LEG of SITTING PERSON
「Tonguing mouth, rod in mouth」with「biting, mattock」and「person who must remain sitting most of the time (匕 as those no-longer-integrated feet so popular in dynastic China)」…a「mattock」is used to「chew up, break into large chunks」some soil prior to sowing seeds in it, with much of the same shape and motion as teeth biting into meat. Meaning that someone is USING TEETH DIRECTLY ON MEAT, and CHEWING or GNAWING it, rather BLUNTLY as if TOUGH and CHEWY…canines chew meat and bone in this manner. Decidedly NOT the「good」radical despite given external meanings. Not many items that are blunt, tough, or chewy can be considered good: significantly, there is very little difference between「goods, capable of being sold」(良) and「clenching, chewing」(艮), just a fine line or small emphasis marker, with some modern fonts merging「open tonguing mouth, conspicuous, white, blankly staring in a stupor」(白) with clenching, a combination that makes little sense. And in real life, too, considering how much trust one must place in another person when placing one's delicate-zone meat into a mouth having a full set of teeth, crossing that fine line of danger and placing the emphasis upon the open tonguing mouth, not the chewing teeth. One can quickly be decapitated, become headless. First sell the ones who bite, keep the others if one is able.
「rod in orifice on raised leg of service provider」describes one of the primary reasons why the ancient Chinese hit upon the idea of dis-integrating feet: avoiding vengeful teeth.
CLENCHING and related problems and fears are present in these glyphs:
歯 and 齒 as teeth.
恨 regret, hate, resentment, rueful, hold a grudge, malice, bitter feeling, rancor, to curse and swear.
艮 chewing.
仡 being fed up with conditions and bravely doing something about it while unafraid of the consequences.
旡 suddenly choking on something in one's throat.
兂 clasped with teeth.
邪 wickedly demonic.
拑 pinning with clenched teeth.
音 loud noise.
既 and 既 too late, happened already, unchangeable.
茱 and 萸 bloody stump, dogwood.
飢 ravenously chomping meat.
啗 enticing lure, gnawing meat.
啖 threaten a superior, taunt and torment, reckless endangerment while tasting and eating.
猖 ferocious and insane, mad, reckless, not following the rules.
惕 healthy respect of danger.
𣇄 and 晣 biting off a chunk, bent by tonguing mouth.
惮 and 憚 fear, dread, shirking, shrunk.
喫 clenching with gasps.
吃 and 喫 extirpate, destroy utterly.
揕 bare-fisted jab, punch in the face.
意 long in thought, intent, concerns.
貇 tenaciously clenching jaw and not letting go.
虞 horror, terror, terrorism.
鉗 clamp and gag.
𪗱 and 齟 discord, broken teeth.
𪘚 and 齬 gritting one's teeth, great hatred.
齭 pain caused by teeth.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 , symbolizing mountain; ☶; blunt; tough; chewy
Japanese EDRDG: northeast (Oriental zodiac), stopping, good
Unihan extended: seventh of eight diagrams

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: 4 entries


Chinese usage: 2 entries


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