材 materials, timber, resources, resourcefulness; one's coffin, corpse box; ability, aptitude, a capable individual 木,才,

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木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

才

サイ,× just now occurred; dammed stream, accumulation; talent, counter for age in years, a capable individual

　ARRAY of HEAD STREAMS
…or: ARRAY of BLOCKED STREAM
　

Meanings of elements

WOODY with TALENT, JUST NOW OCCURRED
…or: WOODY with COUNTER FOR AGE IN YEARS, A CAPABLE INDIVIDUAL
…or: WOODY that is AGED, BLOCKED, DAMMED, ACCUMULATING STREAMS

Cut「timber」as MATERIALS used with「talent, age.」「Wood geniuses」refers to the various types of beavers that work skillfully with wood, both the animals that dam streams by gnawing and felling trees, known for being both busy and RESOURCEFUL, and the beavers who skillfully worked tonguing wood on behalf of the shaman as service providers and her TALENTED human RESOURCES…the source of that English usage, perhaps? a large rodent (子) with webbed hind feet (足) and a broad flat tail (㞑) that gnaws wood?
In modern usage, refers to any sort of RESOURCES and not only timber, or to beaver.「Woody with talent or with age」as a person WITH ABILITY, APTITUDE and RESOURCEFULNESS, but that may have led some men to an early grave, one's COFFIN, which is the original meaning to no one's surprise:「woody with a blockage and accumulating fluids, or, head with array of streaming」that describes a tertiary case of gonorrhea causing both internal scarring of the urethra and a continuous flow streaming from the meatus in the woody glans head.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: material; timber; ability; aptitude; a capable individual; coffin (old)
Japanese EDRDG: lumber, log, timber, wood, materials, ingredients, talent
Unihan extended: material, stuff; timber; talent

Used within names (nanori)
き　･　さい

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.