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Kun-yomi

さかずき
sa　ka　zu　ki

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角

カク,かど,つの a role to play, competition, a horn of bone, protruding head bone, an angle or corner, horny, head horn; ancient wine vessel, musical note, a nook, intractable, difficult to maintain under control

　HEAD AND NECK of ERECTION PLUGGING ORIFICE within NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT, HIGH TENSION GASPS
…or: IMMINENT DANGER of PLUGGED HOLE in SPREAD LEGS with STREAM
…or: HEAD AND NECK DANGER with SHORTENED ROD in MEAT
　

瓜

カ,ケ,うり cucumber, melon, gourd, squash, calabash; female, uterus or womb, loss of virginity; instrument that accompanies songs and singing

　CLAW AT or REPEATEDLY BOBBING ERECT TAUT and LOOSE DRIPPING
　

Meanings of elements

HORN and GOURD
…or: A HORN and SNAGGED, HOOKED and CLAW AT LOOSE AND DRIPPING or REPEATEDLY ERECT TAUT with STINK

「One horn with gourd, cucumber, melon」both Chinese euphemisms of the male and female sex organs, respectively (see 卮 and 巵), and CUPS FOR IMBIBING WITH ALCOHOL tend to facilitate momentary lapses of reason in that regard, giving in to one's decadence, and sometimes a lifetime of regret, likely without any memory of the events. Animal horns, after first having been removed from the animal's skull, were used as drinking cups the world over. Also since long ago, dried gourds were used as flask containers similar to a canteen, called hyōtan in Japanese, and these gourds often contained alcoholic beverages. As is the case with many animal species and not only human beings, sexual matings often begin with licking and drinking fluids from the genitals of the mating partners,「the horn and the melon.」Horns are hollow, a physically stronger shape than if solid, and must be held in the hand or emptied before setting them down, for example to enable a person using the horn to urinate while guided by both hands (following ETIQUETTE RULES AND MANNERS) and therefore encouraged everyone to soon become drunk. In Japan, square wooden handleless cups (sakazuki, masu) are still sometimes used, although now have largely become only ceremonial. If offered, drink from a corner, not from a side (following ETIQUETTE RULES AND MANNERS)
Or: elements individually as「single horn repeatedly erect and taut with loose dripping stench」does smack of「gob-letting」as a DRINKING VESSEL WITH STEM.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: goblet; rule; law
Japanese EDRDG: cup
Unihan extended: jug, winecup, goblet; square

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.

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