掴 to slap, to grip, arrest, to grasp by the short hairs, to comprehend the situation, to get him by the balls, to make an offer that cannot be refused 抂,丶,囗,口,玉,土,一,圡,王,扌,国,

注意：このページには、一部の読者にとって不快または不適切な内容が含まれている可能性があります。
Note: This page may contain content that is offensive or inappropriate for some readers.

MingLiU:

Mincho:

Gothic:

掴

Login Welcome!　Introduction
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.

On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カク
KA　KU

Kun-yomi

つか(む　･　つか(まえる　･　つか(まる
tsu　ka　mu　･　tsu　ka　ma　e　ru　･　tsu　ka　ma　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

抂

キョウ,ゴウ,× disorder, breach of civic order, lack of normal functioning of physical or mental processes, throw into confusion or disarray, deranged

　USING BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK and KING, THE CROWN, RULERSHIP
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

囗

イ,コク,× enclosure

　ENCLOSURE
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

玉

ギョク,たま,たま～,～だま gem, jewels, sphere, ball, testicles, precious stones, time charge for a service provider, source of pearl and nacre, droplet, female entertainer

　DANGLING, TO DANGLE with ROD STALK OR STEM WHILE HORIZONTAL
…or: ARRAY of DINGLEBERRIES
…or: KING, THE CROWN, RULERSHIP with THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE IS THE POINT, MARKED AS THE EMPHASIZED PART OF A GLYPH
…or: ROD beside NIGHT SOIL SEAM with emphasis
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: RODS UP
…or: ROD within A FLESH SEAM
　

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
　

圡

× residual irregularity following some sort of processing, to dangle, dingleberry turd

　NIGHT SOIL, FECES with emphasis on the bottom
　

王

オウ,～ノウ,× king, the crown, rulership

　WIDE ARRAY of LAND
…or: WIDE ARRAY of DIRT, NIGHT SOIL
…or: WIDE ARRAY of FLESH SEAMS
　

扌

シュ,× talented, using both of one's hands to accomplish a task

　TALENT
…or: USING BOTH HANDS
…or: ARRAY of STREAMS with SLIDING HEAD IN
　

国

コク,くに country, region

　THIS IS THE POINT, THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE and KING in ORIFICE
…or: ENCLOSURE, ORIFICE for GEMS, JEWELS, BALLS, TESTICLES
　

Meanings of elements

DISORDER within ENCLOSURE, ORIFICE and THIS IS THE POINT, THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE
…or: TALENTED USING BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK with COUNTRY, REGION
…or: TALENTED USE OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK and ENCLOSE THE LORD'S TESTICLES

Perhaps after gripping, seizing the lord's testicles (see positioning of the emphasis marker), the gripping person may be SLAPPED. Right element formerly 囶 or 圀 as the「borders of soil for copulation」「borders of methods, people for copulation」and referring to the area from within which a fief lord obtained his harem concubines and wealth (貝), not to neglect mentioning the soil and methods where he shafted serfs as well. Gripping by the balls, as it were.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to slap
Japanese EDRDG: catch, seize, grasp, hold, arrest, capture
Unihan extended: box one's ears, slap

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.