昡 extended, a long day at work, relaxed 一,呟,日,曰,玄,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケン
KE　N

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一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

呟

ゲン,つぶや to mutter, grumble, murmur; to tweet

　ORIFICE, MOUTH and LONG AND STRINGY, SHAMAN'S BUSINESS, BLACK, MYSTERIOUS, PROFOUND
　

日

ニチ,ジツ,ひ,～び,～か Sun, day, bright and flashing, brilliant, heat, hot

　CIRCLE DIVIDED
…or: TWO STACKED ORIFICES
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

玄

ゲン,× black, difficult to comprehend, mysterious, shaman business, occult, great depth, profound, long and stringy

　HOLDING SOMETHING RANCID, GANGRENE, TERTIARY STAGE OF ILLNESS, INVERTED CHILD, BLUE-BLACK-GREENISH with UNBOUND, MISSHAPEN
…or: PALMING CONTROL of UNBOUND FOOT with LOOSE DRIPPING STINKY SHORT LEG
…or: PALM DOWN, UNDER CONTROL of THE PLACE FOR BIRTHING, FEMALE GENITALIA, VILLAGE, COUNTRYSIDE, RURAL
…or: PALM DOWN, UNDER CONTROL with WHAT!? SCREAMING AND HOLLERING, SMALLEST, YOUNGEST, MOST TENDER, THE ONE, PROFESSIONAL CARE NEEDED
　

Meanings of elements

ROD in ORIFICE with MUTTERING, GRUMBLING, MURMURING
…or: TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING and SHAMAN BUSINESS, GREAT DEPTH, LONG AND STRINGY
…or: SUN, DAY, BRIGHT FLASHING BRILLIANT with BLACK, DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND, MYSTERIOUS OCCULT, PROFOUND
…or: ARRAY OF ITEMS and MUTTER, GRUMBLE, MURMUR, TO TWEET

「Great depth of a tonguing mouth」as EXTEND, EXTENDED and RELAXING needs no further explanation. Actually, the length of each daylight portion varies almost imperceptibly, remaining virtually unchanged from one to the next other than a few minutes, if that much…however, elements as「sun, dark」or「day, long」may have been thought of as a reference to working late, hence a LONG DAY: the daylight portion and the night time portion together make a long work day. And believe it or not, the Sun does not actually darken much at any time, even at night, and each full day on Earth is just about the same duration as others, neither long nor short, so this glyph more than likely refers to various human activities associated with the shaman's businesses.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: long day; extended; relaxed
Japanese EDRDG: long day, extended, relaxed
Unihan extended: long day; extended; relaxed

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.