仭 ancient unit of measure; fathom, deeply penetrative understanding 亻,刄,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ジン
JI　N

Kun-yomi

はか(る
ha　ka　ru

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
　

刄

ジン,ニン,は,やいば,き sharp; two-edged blade; inventive

　BLADE ON OTHER SIDE, TOO
　

Meanings of elements

PERSON and SHARP, INVENTIVE
…or: ROD HEAD SLIDING with BLADE EDGE

「Person inventive and sharp」as in to FATHOM, which means「to penetrate to the meaning or nature of. Comprehend」
[ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/fathom ] and these elements are「person and reaming blade.」…to find HOW DEEP one needs to delve until reaching an understanding of the nature of a thing or a situation. The fact that FATHOM in English also refers to a quantity of wood, the depth of a fluid flow, mining while penetrating into soil, comprehension of the nature of things, and is derived from Old Frisian fethem「outstretched arms」Old Norse fathmr「embrace」Latin patēre「to gape」all coincidentally might apply to a deep bougie reaming. An English FATHOM measure is six feet.「Person with reaming blade」used to reopen a blocked urethra.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Japanese EDRDG: fathom
Unihan extended: ancient unit of measure (8 feet); 'fathom'

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.