阪 sloping hillside, the heights, terraced slopes of a hill used for farming, inconvenient place, difficult to reach or remain at, inclined slope ⻖,ナ,又,反,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ハン
HA　N

Kun-yomi

さか
sa　ka

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

⻖

× HTML entity: ⻖ terraced soil slope, soil hill, rear view of naked buttocks, a fundament

　VERTICALLY TERRACED SLOPING BACKSIDE
　

ナ

× HTML entity: ナ hand (as an element); use of one's hand

　ROD with SLIDING HEAD
…or: ERECT ROD
　

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
　

反

ハン,ホン,タン,そ,かえ,～かえ to be inside-out; to reverse the position of something, reversible; to roll, rolled, roll back; opposite direction or positioning from the norm; a contrary position

　ERECTION ARRAYED with CROTCH
…or: COVER YIELDING AGAIN
…or: HAND on CROTCH
…or: CROTCH CURTAIN
　

Meanings of elements

TERRACED SOIL SLOPE and OPPOSE
…or: HUMAN BACKSIDE with HAND, ROD ERECT in CROTCH
…or: HUMAN BACKSIDE with FORESKIN

As one climbs a SLOPE, it seems that the「hill opposes」upward progress. Moreover, nearly as much effort can be required to prevent yourself from stumbling down a steep slope as it does to climb one, that is, the slope opposes your efforts to slow down. Glyph includes「terraced slopes」used formerly for FARMLAND in steps of irrigated strips around a hill, and not flat land that is often used today.
「Curtain crotch with human backside」such as a skirt or dress will also accentuate the SLOPE of the buttocks and small of the lower back, waist.「Hand on crotch with human backside」refers to an INCONVENIENT PLACE, DIFFICULT TO REACH as perhaps the action of an obese person attempting to wipe up after defecating.「Naked human backside with skinned back penile sheath」refers to DIFFICULT TO REACH and needs no further explanation.「Human backside and arrayed erection with crotch」as the HEIGHTS, a place for sowing seeds, plowing soil, furrowing, a slippery slope, series of muck-filled cracks with slurry, green emerging grain shafts, and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: a slope; hillside
Japanese EDRDG: heights, slope
Unihan extended: hillside farmland; slope

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.