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カン
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あな
a na

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Meanings of elements
SOIL, FECES and DEFICIENT, LACKING, BROKEN, TO BE SHORT, TO BE INSUFFICIENT
「Missing soil」is a PIT, HOLE that can become a SNARE, TRAP, CRISIS. Perhaps the SYMBOL FOR WATER refers to the unequivocal need for rain or irrigation with soil to grow crops and support animal and plant life.「Deficient ground, soil」in the throes of severe drought often opens up with deep cracks, HOLES signifying the CRISIS, and a SYMBOL FOR WATER as being direly in need. And on the contrary,「deficient ground, soil」may well also be waterlogged, boggy, marshy wetlands as a SNARE, TRAP, PIT, HOLE, a place where fluids can surely be found (), a SYMBOL FOR WATER. A THRESHOLD or LIMEN is an entrance, doorway, vestibule, entry point, or the condition at which a stimulus is strong enough to produce a physiological or psychological response: in the case of this glyph, where「feces are lacking」in a HOLE, a symbol for fluid flow. Similar to beckoning「Come and get it!」or some variation thereof.

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: pit; hole; threshold; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing water; ☵
Japanese: pit, hole, kan
Unihan extended: pit, hole; snare, trap; crisis
EDRDG: pitfall

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 2 entries


Chinese usage: 40 entries


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