粕 lees, dregs, scum, residual, residue 丷,柏,米,白,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ハク
HA　KU

Kun-yomi

かす
ka　su

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丷

× emit upward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
　

柏

ハク,ヒャク,ビャク,かしわ white oak; daimyo oak, Japanese emperor oak; hard wood

　WOOD and WHITE, CONSPICUOUS emphasis on TONGUING MOUTH
　

米

ベイ,マイ,メエトル,こめ,よね sticky blob or splat, many seeds in one place, grainy, puckered, flaming, rice

　EMIT IN ALL DIRECTIONS with SCREWING
…or: EMISSIONS SPURTING UP from WOODY
…or: ARRAY of items, ROD with STICKY FLUID EMISSIONS
…or: RODS in all directions DRIPPING on all sides
　

白

ハク,ビャク,しろ,しら～ open-mouthed, conspicuous, white, blank, empty, staring in a stupor, to make clear, inspection

　emphasis marker above TONGUE IN MOUTH
…or: emphasis marker above ROD in MOUTH
　

Meanings of elements

EMIT UPWARD SPURTING UP with WHITE OAK, DAIMYO OAK, JAPANESE EMPEROR OAK, HARD WOOD
…or: STICKY BLOB OR SPLAT, PUCKERED, FLAMING, MANY SEEDS IN ONE PLACE, RICE GRAINS with OPEN-MOUTHED, CONSPICUOUS, WHITE, BLANK, EMPTY, STARING IN A STUPOR, TO MAKE CLEAR, INSPECTION
…or: CONSPICUOUS WHITE EMISSIONS from HARD WOODY

Possibly liquor made from fermented rice, with lees and dregs settling to the bottom. White rice can be easily fermented overnight to make 'sweet alcohol' known in Japanese as amazake with globs of no-longer-integrated rice grains settling to the bottom of the container…in any case,「sticky splats spat out from an open tonguing mouth, white and conspicuous」cannot be overlooked as the SCUM, RESIDUE, the RESIDUAL CRAP that remained after a client departed. Nevertheless, as「white rice」(Chinese read from right to left) perhaps the glyph is a remark about the relative health benefits of eating polished white rice with all the bran removed and the most nutritious parts discarded, in favor of caloric benefits. High starch-sugar content aids fermentation.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: grains in distilled liquor
Japanese EDRDG: scrap, waste
Unihan extended: lees, dregs, sediments left after distilling liquor

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.