Login
Welcome! Introduction
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.
KE N
ka ne ru ・ ~ka ne ru
Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]
Scholars explain this as single hand holding two rice stalks as 'unable to do,' nevertheless, practical experience and common sense over the past 400,000 years dictate that in fact it is humanly possible to hold two rice plants (禾) in one hand concurrently with ease, and that even in the good old days, uneducated serfs performed this purportedly impossible feat, and more often every day during harvest time. If they didn't, it was likely that co-workers would whack them for being lazy. People often do two things at the same time, but there are certain tasks that no one can do simultaneously.
As a footnote, some members have suggested CUM as something two cannot accomplish simultaneously, nevertheless practical experience and common sense over the past 40,000 years or longer dictate that in fact it is humanly possible,…however, CUM does not here refer to sexual orgasm, but to the Latin word meaning COMBINED TOGETHER WITH.
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: double; twice; simultaneous; holding two or more (official) posts at the same time
Japanese: cum, in addition, concurrently, at the same time, to combine with, to serve as both, to hold an additional post, to use with, previously, already, lately, to be unable to, to find difficult to do, to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously, to contain two or more features, to work in two or more jobs simultaneously, to do alongside, to hesitate to do something, to think of the future
Unihan extended: unite, combine; connect; and
EDRDG: concurrently; and; beforehand; in advance
Used within names (nanori)
かね
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 68 entries
Chinese usage: 42 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 28 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 28 entries
- Glyph.03350
- Strokes: 10
- jlpt-N2 grade_08
Agree? Disagree? Express your opinion by posting a comment.
This publication has included material from the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
This publication has included material from the JMdict (EDICT, etc.) dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.
This publication has included material from the Unicode Character Database. Copyright © 1991-2016 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. Distributed under these Terms of Use.