軛 cangue, yoke, collar, to restrain 車,厄,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ヤク　･　アク
YA　KU　･　A　KU

Kun-yomi

くびき
ku　bi　ki

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

車

シャ,くるま rotation, wheel, cart, military vehicle, a well-oiled machine, greased axle; axel (rotation with human body), sequential screwing in orifice

　TURNING, SCREWING on both sides of a FILLED ORIFICE
…or: EXTENDED and ROTATING
…or: TWO in a MONKEY
…or: SCREWING a PLUGGING ORIFICE then SCREWING it again
…or: (three) sequential SCREWINGS in ORIFICE
…or: ARRAY of MONKEYS in LINE, with ROD, INDICATE EXTENT
　

厄

ヤク,× adversity, misfortune, bad luck, evil, distress, being in a low-quality situation

　CLIFF and ROLLED
…or: COILED in HAND
…or: HAND on PENIS IN NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
…or: CURTAINED and JOINED WITH A TIGHT SEAL
　

Meanings of elements

ROTATION, WHEEL of MISFORTUNE, BAD LUCK, EVIL, DISTRESS
…or: SEQUENTIAL SCREWING IN ORIFICE with HANDS CURLED, BEHIND CURTAIN AND SODOMIZED

The「wheel of mis-fortune」was not an ancient game show. A CANGUE is a large, heavy wooden collar placed around the neck of a prisoner similar to a yolk or a pillory, except that the boards are not attached to anything other than the prisoner and must be carried, dragged, or rolled everywhere if at all possible and intended to be highly unlikely. Cangues were large enough to prevent the prisoner from feeding himself, or scratching his own nose, and so on. If no one assisted the prisoner, he would starve. At first, cangues were rectangular, but some were round like a wheel, enabling the prisoner to roll the heavy cangue along the ground with his neck acting as the axle (enabling greater degree of torture and comedic effect for an audience) but with his body bent over at a right angle to one side and scrambling like a crab, causing painful bloody skin rips on the prisoner's neck or an involuntary tracheotomy that often resulted in falling over, either head down and unable to move further, kicking like an overturned cockroach, or head up but choking. Eventually the round shape was favored due to being far, far more entertaining for spectators, which after all was said and done was the whole purpose…in any case, the guy was「dead meat scrambling.」
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to restrain; to yoke
Japanese EDRDG: yoke
Unihan extended: yoke, collar; to restrain

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.