粔 doughnuts, cakes with a hole in the center, ring-shaped confections 丷,柜,米,巨,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キョ
KYO

Kun-yomi

ご
go

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丷

× emit upward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
　

柜

キョ,コ,ク,あまだれ large wooden container, cupboard, countertop; cabinet, wardrobe closet; grey willow, old inhabitant of the willow world

　BAR, ROD, LEVER, THICK POLE, PRY BAR, TAPERED with ORIFICE
…or: WOODY with LARGE DIMENSIONS, GIGANTIC, VAST WIDE BERTH, WARNING TO MAINTAIN DISTANCE AWAY FROM
…or: WOOD and ON EACH SIDE OF ORIFICE, FLESH SEAM END-TO-END
　

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
　

巨

キョ,× large dimensions, gigantic, vast, a wide berth; warning to maintain distance away from

　ORIFICE within FLESH SEAM
…or: UNSEEN with ORIFICE, TWO ENDS OF SOMETHING MAKE CONTACT
…or: FLESH SEAM with FOLDED OVER HEEL-TO-TOE
　

Meanings of elements

EMIT UPWARD with CONTAINING WOOD
…or: EMIT SPURTING with TAPERED ROD in ORIFICE FOLDED OVER
…or: STICKY BLOB OR SPLAT with WARNING TO STAY AWAY
…or: STICKY BLOB OR SPLAT and HOLE, ORIFICE in CENTER OF CAVITY
…or: STICKY BLOB OR SPLAT, PUCKERED FLAMING with ORIFICE in FLESH SEAM

The apparent allusions by all the various element combinations to a vagina need no explanation. Perhaps another joke here is that in order to shape the confection with a hole in the center, the Chinese baker must place the dough against his nuts, not unlike a vagina, hence: DOUGHNUTS, a term that entered the English language only after Englishmen travelled to China and ate these confections…or「dough naught-shaped」of course, with「naught」meaning zero as a toroidal shape. See the elements for your own interpretation, but no matter how one sees it, apparently doughnuts as fried confections were extant in China long prior to the Middle Ages.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: cakes made from rice flour twisted into rings
Japanese EDRDG: cakes made from rice flour twisted into rings
Unihan extended: cakes made from rice flour twisted into rings

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.