岔 bifurcation, diverge, branch off, forked shape 分,山,

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分

ブン,フン,わ cleanly divided portion; minute (of time); understand, distinguish good and evil

　DIVIDED by CUTTING
…or: EMISSIONS with REAMING
　

山

サン,セン,やま peaked, mountain-like shape, lava cone, eruptions, speculated area to be covered during an examination, wadded bundle of raw sticky threads, rod in sheath cavity, glans penis

　UPRIGHT VERTICAL MOTION within CAVITY
…or: ROD protruding from CAVITY
　

Meanings of elements

CLEANLY DIVIDED and EMERGE
…or: EMISSIONS REAMING with GLANS

Perhaps a「divided mountain」of jutting rock that branches out and up like FORK PRONGS or TINES.
　Alternatively,「emissions reaming with glans」refers to a specially shaped penis, DIVERGING and BRANCHING. Snakes and other reptiles have branching glans for reaming emissions:「A hemipenis (plural hemipenes) is one of a pair of intromittent organs of male squamates (snakes, lizards and worm lizards). Hemipenes are usually held inverted, within the body, and are everted for reproduction via erectile tissue, much like that in the human penis. Only one is used at a time, and evidence indicates males alternate use between copulations as a behavioral means of increasing sperm transfer when the interval between copulations is relatively brief. The hemipenis itself has a variety of shapes, depending on species. Often, the hemipenis bears spines or hooks, in order to anchor the male within the female. Some species even have forked hemipenes (each hemipenis has two tips).」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemipenis 2014-06-23　]　

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: fork in road; bifurcation; branch in road, river, mountain range etc; to branch off; to turn off; to diverge; to stray (from the path); to change the subject; to interrupt; to stagger (times)
Unihan extended: diverge, branch off; fork in road
EDRDG: fork in a road

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