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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
オウ
O U
Kun-yomi
ほとぎ ・ はち ・ かめ
ho to gi ・ ha chi ・ ka me

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Meanings of elements
DISCRIMINATE, DIFFERENTIATE, RESTRICTED ZONE with JOLT, FIRED CLAY SLURRY
…or: UNSEEN, CONCEALED with WEAVING MOTIONS and FIRED DRIED HARDENED SLURRY, GIRL, YOUNG FEMALE, MEASURE OF ELECTRIC CURRENT, ROD SEGMENT with emphasis inside RAISED LEG(S) with THRUSTING FORWARD, BIRD TAKING FLIGHT
Original Chinese elements of「unseen crotch, restricted zone and fired soil.」Containers were used to collect feces (「clay, soil」and「fired, extreme heat」) for making slurry and spreading as fertilizer onto the crops and into the paddies of the terraces slopes. An oven, furnace was the Chinese euphemism for being inside the anus, as depicted in the many glyphs referring to buggery. Not the usual 'drinking vessel' as it were, although CLAY VESSEL came to be used as such. TURTLE and the TURTLE HEAD are Chinese euphemism for the male penis.
From time immemorial before the beginning, humans have collected feces and used it as fertilizer. Still today, researchers are working on finding solutions for problems facing humanity. It is not only feces that are an excellent fertilizer. Urine works, too! "Innovative system turns human waste into sustainable fertilizer: Stanford researchers have developed a prototype that harnesses urine to generate valuable fertilizer, offering solutions for sanitation and energy in resource-limited regions."
[ https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/08/prototype-urine-human-waste-fertilizer-sustainable-energy-research/ 2025-08-21 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: (pottery) bowl or drinking vessel; old name for Wenzhou City 溫州市|温州市 in Zhejiang 浙江
Japanese EDRDG: bowl, cup, small tray
Unihan extended: bowl, cup; small tray

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.


Chinese usage: 6 entries


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