県 governmental authority, prefecture, county, country (archaic) 具,亅,目,∟,小,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケン
KE　N

Kun-yomi

か(ける
ka　ke　ru

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具

グ,そな,つぶさ classifier for coffins, dead bodies; food or meal ingredients; equip with, to furnish; utensil, tool; in detail; tangible, definite

　MEAT PILE and EMITTING
…or: CAULDRON and BASE STANCE with GUSHING FLUIDS FROM HOLLOW SHAFTS
…or: GOAL, FOCUS OF EYES, MEAT PILED on TABLE
…or: ARRAYED inside FLESHPOT
　

亅

ケツ,かぎ downward flowing fluid stream; barbed

　STREAM
　

目

モク,ボク,め,～め,ま～ center of a fleshpot, goal, place where eyes are focused, intention, aim, contents, experience, favored, care, an item such as might appear on a menu of choices, eyes

　FLESHPOT CENTER
…or: CONTAINER of ORIFICES
…or: THREE ORIFICES in one container
　

∟

× direct, square, right-angled

　VERTICAL with LATERAL, HORIZONTAL
　

小

ショウ,ちい,こ～,お～,さ～ relatively small condition; small stream of emissions; young, a minor; human mound; deeply felt

　STREAM of EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

EYE on HANGING STREAM of EMISSIONS
…or: GOAL of HANGING with SMALL YOUTHS EMITTING STREAMS

[Japanese variant of 縣] Traditional Chinese combines elements of「meat pile with streaming emissions」(and included「progeny, kin」) perhaps says it all about the real purposes behind most GOVERNING AUTHORITY: a reference to executing someone representing a degree of vengeful action or punishment based upon law that only the STATE GOVERNMENT (and pirates, bandits, or God Almighty) would dare to perform. Simplified Chinese version of this glyph is now「meat pile, added to, furthermore」with「loose dripping stench」(县).
Some scholars say this glyph represents a head dripping blood and brains, decapitated at the neck,「hanged」from a tree, or when unavailable, a pole or spear poked into a small dirt mound for viewing:「looking at hanged and stream of emissions」indicating GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY. Japanese pronunciation of かける generally refers to either taking some sort of risky gamble, or, a hanging of some sort.
「An eye for hanging even the small, young」to depict that the government is always watching the small guy for small things with which to hang him, which is admittedly a bit of paranoid exaggeration, but the tax collection authorities seems to be that way at times, and after all is said and done, just because we are paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get us.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese variant of 縣|县; Japanese prefecture
Japanese EDRDG: prefecture
Unihan extended: county, district, subdivision

Used within names (nanori)
あがた　･　がた

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.