賢 clever, worthy or virtuous younger person, intelligent, sagacious 匚,丨,又,員,臤,貝,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケン
KE　N

Kun-yomi

かしこ(い
ka　shi　ko　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

匚

ホウ,× contained restricted area

　ARRAYED in RIGHT-ANGLES
…or: ONE with NOOSE
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

又

ユウ,また,また～ once again, this or that, yield, both, any method at all, crotch

　GASPING and TAUT
…or: LAME FOOT with the OTHER SIDE, TOO
　

員

イン,× member, person(s) of a group, gathered around, cluster, clustering

　FLESHPOT ORIFICE
…or: a WEALTH of ORIFICE(S)
…or: ORIFICE as WEALTH
…or: ORIFICE with AIM, GOAL, EYEING EMISSIONS
　

臤

カン,ケン,コウ,キョウ,かた under control, hard, unyielding, firm, shrewd, wise

　VASSAL OF THE LIEGE LORD, TRUSTED SERVANT, BE ON GUARD, CONCUBINE, SLAVE, CAPTIVE, VARLET and CROTCH, ONCE AGAIN, ONE MORE TIME, OR, THIS OR THAT, YIELD, BOTH OF THEM, FURTHER AND MORE, FURTHERMORE
　

貝

バイ,かい wealth, money, valuable outer shell, fleshpot, valuable external appearance

　AIM, EYE ON GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: EYEING EXPERIENCE with EMISSIONS
…or: CENTER OF FLESHPOT with EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

MEMBER CROTCHES for CONTAINMENT of RODS
…or: HARD AND TIGHT SHREWD CROTCH CONTROL with FLESHPOT, WEALTH, GOAL OF EMISSIONS

「In firm control of one's own hard and tight crotch and wealth, or, concerning one's fleshpots」can be describing someone CLEVER and INTELLIGENT who does not visit the brothels, saves his wealth and his health by being in control of his sexual desires. Or, may describe successful pimping, in firm control of the fleshpots, service providers, patrons, and the profits.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: worthy or virtuous person; honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation
Japanese: yours sincerely, respectfully yours, intelligence, genius, scholarship, virtue, wise, clever, smart, sagacious, intelligent, impertinent
Unihan extended: virtuous, worthy, good; able
EDRDG: intelligent; wise; wisdom; cleverness

Used within names (nanori)
かた　･　さか　･　さと　･　さとし　･　たか　･　たて　･　のり　･　まこと　･　まさ　･　まさる

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.