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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
カン
KA N
Kun-yomi
かがや(く
ka ga ya ku

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Meanings of elements
RISING RED ORB and PERSON
…or: IMBECILE PERSON
Some have suggested a「sun」among「plants」(upper and lower) to mean「sunrise, dawn, rising」with「person.」Many folks in the past worshipped the Sun as a god, and some still do today. Elements as「imbecilic person」might refer to such folks, or to someone awed by the sunrise and staring at the scene while gawking as it (seems to) rise from among trees and plants (or so the person believes), rather than starting the daily work tasks. This interpretation is a bit cruel since sometimes the sunrise truly is awesome (right?).
 「Imbecile」also derives from a person standing and staring wide-eyed gawking with mouth wide open, often the posture of a person possessing a low level of cerebral processing ability, such as someone believing in unicorns and other balderdash or anagoges. Note that「sunrise」as an element is generally depicted with「sun amidst one top plant and one bottom plant」while「sunset」is generally depicted with「sun amidst two top plants and two bottom plants」which perhaps assumes some plant growth occurred during the daylight portion while the Sun was up.
 This glyph is sometimes written as「imbecile person prone (as a sun-worshipper?)」( and 𠂉) when used as an element in traditional fonts.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: dawn (archaic)
Unihan extended: sunrise; dawn
EDRDG: sunrise; dawn

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.


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