磛 falling from a cliff, hitting one's peak, all downhill from here 車,斫,硨,砷,二,斬,石,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

サン　･　セン
SA　N　･　SE　N

Kun-yomi

けわ(しい
ke　wa　shi　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

車

シャ,くるま rotation, wheel, cart, military vehicle, a well-oiled machine, greased axle; axel (rotation with human body), sequential screwing in orifice

　TURNING, SCREWING on both sides of a FILLED ORIFICE
…or: EXTENDED and ROTATING
…or: TWO in a MONKEY
…or: SCREWING a PLUGGING ORIFICE then SCREWING it again
…or: (three) sequential SCREWINGS in ORIFICE
…or: ARRAY of MONKEYS in LINE, with ROD, INDICATE EXTENT
　

斫

シャク,き cut, chop off, lop off, to hack off, carving something wooden

　ARRAY of ERECTIONS and OBEY, COMPLY
…or: ROCKS and SUBTLY CRUEL OR MALICIOUS, SPITEFUL, PAWING AND SCRATCHING PRICK-TEASING
…or: TESTICLES with HATCHET
　

硨

シャ,× giant clam, rolling stones, revolving with testicles

　INTERNAL NECROSIS, GREEN GELATINOUS MASS with CHANGING STATUS
…or: STONE, ROCK and ROTATE, PLUGGING ORIFICE, ROTATE
　

砷

シン,× arsenic; gelatinous mass of innards, necrosis of one's bodily organs, full-body gangrene internally

　STONE, MINERAL and PROLONGED EXTENSION, THUNDERING VOICE, DIVINE, THE MONKEY
　

二

ニ,ジ,ふた,ふたたび two; a change of physical state

　ONE (twice)
　

斬

ザン,サン,セン,ゼン,き slow progress, decapitation, head loss, beheading with chariot wheels, serial axe murderer, an easy kill; sport of kings, killing time, bumpy ride

　ROTATION, WHEEL, CART, MILITARY VEHICLE with SUBTLY CRUEL OR MALICIOUS, PRICK-TEASING, SPITEFUL CAT-LIKE BEHAVIOR, PAWING AND SCRATCHING, HATCHET, HAND AXE, HAND HELD IN SHAPE OF A HATCHET IN MOTION
…or: SEQUENTIAL SCREWING IN ORIFICE and MALICIOUS PRICKING
　

石

セキ,シャク,コク,いし rocky or rock-like, stones, rocks, minerals

　LATERAL MOTION, ROD and HEAD SLIDING or ERECTION with ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY
　

Meanings of elements

CART and HACKED OFF, LOPPED
…or: INTERNAL NECROSIS, GREEN GELATINOUS MASS with SUBTLY CRUEL, PAWING AND SCRATCHING
…or: SLOW PROGRESS, DECAPITATE, MURDER, AN EASY KILL, BUMPY RIDE and ROCKY OR ROCK-LIKE, STONES, ROCKS

Falling from a great height instinctively causes many animals to「rotate」「paw and scratch like a cat」at the air while hoping to grasp ahold of something and slow the descent. Upon finally making contact,「internal gelatinous mass of internal organs with changed conditions」or looking a bit as does a「giant clam」with shell opened is not uncommon, depending upon the height of the cliff and wind resistance factors. This phenomenon in English-speaking capital stock markets is referred to as a 'dead cat bounce' (no kidding).「Decapitated by rocks, bumpy ride, slow progress」needs no further explanation, for the most part, to describe cascading down a STEEP SLOPE rather than a freefall while scraping off various broken appendages and body parts along the way down:「carved by rotation.」
「Lopped, hacked, chopped off」from the「cart」or the normal「rotation」describes the action of being terminated from performing further service, which in the old days of dynastic China easily may have entailed being tossed from a high cliff for various reasons.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: cliff; peak
Japanese EDRDG: cliff
Unihan extended: cliff

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.