改 revise, reform, renew, to make corrections, amend, alter, modify; clear an area; examine; to be formal, ceremonious, faking it, falsifying the results; strategy revision after poor quality outcome コ,レ,己,攵,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カイ
KA　I

Kun-yomi

あらた(める　･　あらた(まる
a　ra　ta　me　ru　･　a　ra　ta　ma　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

コ

× HTML entity: コ bent until the two ends of something make contact or nearly so, something folded over onto itself, end-to-end, in-and-out, side-to-side, bent and folded in half

　CONTAINED, FOLDED OVER
　

レ

× HTML entity: レ chew, masticate, bite; raised feet; mattock

　VERTICAL MOTION, ROD with HEAD UP AND IN
　

己

コ,キ,おのれ,つちのと,な [referring to males] oneself, the self, I, selfish; derogatory epithet referring to the decrepit condition of a penis, interjection expressing anger or chagrin, you

　END-TO-END, FOLDED OVER IN HALF with VENOMOUS APPENDAGE
　

攵

ホク,× goad, coerce, force, incite action, prostrate and stroking, whacking

　SUPINE with PETTING CROSSING MOTION
…or: WHACKED and PROSTRATED
　

Meanings of elements

ONESELF and INCITE ACTION, COERCE, FORCE
…or: DECREPIT CONDITION OF A PENIS and PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING

「Self-whacking, force yourself」into an apologetic position after an EXAMINATION, also highly recommended when attempting to offer an apology after discovering the need for some REFORM, REVISE, RENEW, CORRECT, AMEND, ALTER, MODIFICATION of a prior mistake, such as one「forcing, inciting a decrepit condition of one's penis.」Japanese meanings of being FORMAL and CEREMONIOUS perhaps is assuming an obsequious posture of kneeling and bowing forward or lying prone with hands crossed on the floor in front of your forehead or chest as the most possibly polite posture, but FAKING it in reality.
Left element varies by font, as「self, decrepit penile conditions」or in traditional fonts as「end-to-end bitten, chewed.」Right element of「prostrate with whacking motions」「to coerce, to force some action or behavior.」Taken as a whole, the elements describe attempts to REFORM, REVISE a bad situation with a close EXAMINATION of the results. Perhaps describes the need to RENEW, CORRECT, AMEND, ALTER, MODIFY one's behavior by no longer visiting service providers and engage in「prostrate whacking of, inciting oneself」instead, another form of faking or pretending one thing is something else altogether.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to change; to alter; to transform; to correct
Japanese EDRDG: reformation, change, modify, mend, renew, examine, inspect, search
Unihan extended: change, alter; improve, remodel

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.