偈 forceful, brave, martial, hasty, scudding or skimming motion skipping atop a surface 亻,曷,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ゲ　･　ケツ　･　ケイ
GE　･　KE　TSU　･　KE　I

Kun-yomi

いこ(う
i　ko　u

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

曷

カツ,なんぞ,いつ,いずくんぞ,なに make demands, interrogation, beg for mercy; hollering loudly, all of: why how when what where; display of dead meat or rotting corpse

　TONGUING MOUTH with BEGGING FOR
…or: SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING with GIVE WHAT IS DESERVING
…or: TONGUE IN MOUTH with ODOR, GIBBETING
…or: ROD in ORIFICE with BEGGING, TO BEG
　

Meanings of elements

PERSON with TONGUING MOUTH and ODOR, GIBBETING
…or: PERSON and MAKE DEMANDS, INTERROGATION, BEG FOR MERCY, WHY HOW WHEN WHAT WHERE, DISPLAY OF MEAT

Elements need no further explanation as a service provider not inclined to give full service due to the disgusting stench emanating from the client's breeches, in spite of demands and/or pleading, begging, hollering loudly by both participants, and so on. FORCEFUL, FORCING ANOTHER TO PERFORM, FORCED FULL. Concept of MARTIAL relates to actions or activities performed by armed forces, or suggestive of a battle between adversaries. HASTILY, HASTY and simply SKIMMING THE SURFACE relate to the source of the foul odor being positioned quite near the service provider's nostrils…「gibbeting」is publicly hanging rotting corpses, a display of stench-emitting meat.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: forceful; martial; Buddhist hymn; gatha; Buddhist verse
Japanese EDRDG: verse in praise of Buddha, fast, healthy, rest
Unihan extended: brave; martial; hasty; scudding

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.