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カツ
KA TSU
Kun-yomi
なんぞ ・ いつ ・ いずくんぞ ・ なに
na n zo ・ i tsu ・ i zu ku n zo ・ na ni

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Meanings of elements
TONGUING MOUTH with BEGGING FOR
…or: SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING with GIVE WHAT IS DESERVING
…or: TONGUE IN MOUTH with ODOR, GIBBETING
…or: ROD in ORIFICE with BEGGING, TO BEG
「Tongue in mouth, speak」with「noose wrapped around head and neck」as it refers to INTERROGATION and MAKING DEMANDS as you need to BEG FOR MERCY and scream until hoarse or dead, obviously a situation causing「head in high tension with open mouth while dangling」and being asked all the HOW WHEN WHY WHAT WHERE interrogatories. Another situation in which someone may BEG FOR MERCY (see the related glyph) and ask questions relates to the odor of a concubine's feet and/or pussy (匂) due to either ardent desire or the stench, and perhaps was the reasoning behind this substitution. GIBBETING is publicly hanging rotting corpses, a display of stench-emitting meat, cases referring to anyone's meat…the root of the word gibbet is the source of the English word, 'giblets' as the innards, or inner organs.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: why; how; when; what; where
Japanese EDRDG: why, how, when
Unihan extended: why? what? where?

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.


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