棊 game board; shōgi, igo, chess 其,朩,某,柑,十,ハ,木,

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其

キ,ギ,ゴ,それ,その that is mine, ours, etc.; that; carefully selected; [possessive case used grammatically]; a given, a possible option

　SMILES, WILLINGNESS of FLESHPOT
…or: TO PRESUME UPON ANOTHER with SUPPORTED FROM BENEATH
…or: DIVINE IMPLEMENT for RAISED RODS
…or: SWEETNESS on the TABLE
…or: DIVINE MEAT PILE
　

朩

× hemp; herbs, cannabis; et cetera; wait while passing time without anxiety

　TWISTED SMALL
…or: ROD-LIKE with STEADY STREAM of EMISSIONS
…or: ARRAY of SMALL EMISSIONS
…or: SCREWING in COPULATION
　

某

ボウ,それがし,なにがし severe acute short-term memory loss; [an unnamed reference] Mr. So-and-so, Mr. X; that day, one day

　PRESUME UPON ANOTHER PERSON, WILLING COMPLIANCE, SMILING SWEETNESS, NAIVE, TO COAX, TO PAMPER, SWEET AND LIGHTLY SALTED with SCREWING EMISSIONS, WOODY STALK
…or: WILLFUL SMILING with CANNABIS
　

柑

コン,カン,× easily peeled, easily skinned, loose-skinned, mandarin orange

　TREE, PLANT and WILLINGNESS TO COMPLY, SWEETNESS
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

Meanings of elements

THAT IS MINE, A POSSIBLE OPTION and PASSING THE TIME WITHOUT ANXIETY, HERBS
…or: MY WOOD

Block of「wood」with lines drawn on it used as a GAME BOARD such as those used in shōgi or igo. A section「that is mine」and a section that is yours, the wood supports the game pieces from beneath, gaming with smiling players, rotating emissions (placement of a game piece) by taking turns during the game, presuming upon another, and so on. Interestingly, the Chinese glyphs representing mahjong (麻雀) are「cannabis with talkative knowledgeable person.」Acute memory loss associates well, both with games lost and those won, in order to maintain friendships.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: Japanese chess
Unihan extended: chess; any game similar to chess

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.