戽 to bale water for irrigation; large bucket 戶,斗,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コ　･　ク
KO　･　KU

Kun-yomi

く(む　･　あかくみ
ku　mu　･　a　ka　ku　mi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

戶

× buttocks crack; the doorway; one's family members

　REPEATED BUTTOCKS
　

斗

ト,トウ,× not unified internally; in need of balancing; inharmonious positions, to fight, struggle with adversaries; bone mashing, disconnected bone fragments

　CONGEAL, DRIPPING and REPEATEDLY with VERTICAL MOTION, ROD
…or: TWO with TOP-TO-BOTTOM and NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED HORIZONTAL or REPEATEDLY
　

Meanings of elements

BUTTOCKS CRACK and MEASURE OF VOLUME EQUAL TO 18 LITERS, NOT UNIFIED INTERNALLY, BROKEN INTO LARGE CHUNKS OR PORTIONS BUT NOT FULLY SEPARATED, TO PUT ADVERSARIES TOGETHER

「Buttocks crack and volume of fluid, 18 liters」as it refers to BALING FROM ONE PADDY TO ANOTHER in order to irrigate the fields,「balancing and adjusting」the water in adjacent paddies, likely moving slurry from a lower field and adding it to an upper field.「Buttocks crack」is not a coincidence, since the water was quite likely similar to the smell and consistency of diarrhea. Human excrement was collected each morning and formed into slurry, then spread over the paddies as fertilizer. Baling muck and water to another field would have stirred the settled shit, reconstituting its diarrheal properties and stench. If adjoining fields were operated by different groups or tribes, then some acrimony regarding water distribution may have also resulted.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: water bucket for irrigation
Japanese EDRDG: to bale out water
Unihan extended: to bale out water

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