氣 gas, odor, foul smell; dour mood, anger, enraged; air, atmosphere; spirit, mind; vital energy 気,十,气,米,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キ　･　ケ
KI　･　KE

Kun-yomi

いき
i　ki

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

気

キ,ケ,いき mind, spirit; energy; atmosphere

　SPIRIT with CENTER OF HEAD
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

气

キ,ケ,いき spirit, mind, mood; air, atmosphere, gas, odor; to be enraged; tempestuous

　PRONE PERSON with ROD FORWARD THRUSTING, TAKING FLIGHT
　

米

ベイ,マイ,メエトル,こめ,よね sticky blob or splat, many seeds in one place, grainy, puckered, flaming, rice

　EMIT IN ALL DIRECTIONS with SCREWING
…or: EMISSIONS SPURTING UP from WOODY
…or: ARRAY of items, ROD with STICKY FLUID EMISSIONS
…or: RODS in all directions DRIPPING on all sides
　

Meanings of elements

ATMOSPHERE and FILLED COMPLETELY, PLUGGED, BLOCKED, CLOSING (nostril) HOLES, TWISTED
…or: SPIRIT, MOOD, AIR, ATMOSPHERE, GAS, ODOR, BE ENRAGED, TEMPESTUOUS with STICKY BLOB, JISM SPLAT
…or: SCREWED MIND
…or: SCREWING in MIND
…or: SCREWING ENERGY

The dynastic Chinese concept of VITAL ENERGY is integrally related to yang, and the ability to cleanly ejaculate.
Or:「spirit, mood, gas, odor, to be enraged, tempestuous」with「sticky blob, puckered」that suggest an angry face, furrowed brow, and puckered lips for any reason, but uses the example of being caused a truly foul and disgusting odor to create a foul and disgusting mood, or being enraged. Internal element at times means「rice grains」but granular rice actually has very little odor. Rather, ANGRY MOOD, ENRAGED uses elements of「person prone thrusting horizontally with puckered orifice」and most folks will agree that being engaged involuntarily in any puckered area is a fairly good reason to be in a DOUR MOOD, although it may just as easily be the master/ owner/ lord who is in a foul mood…related glyph may indicate the cause:「choking, vomiting, retching」with「many emissions.」An angry spirit or dour mood also represents the WEATHER at times.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
Japanese EDRDG: spirit, mind, air, atmosphere, mood
Unihan extended: air, gas, steam, vapor; spirit

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.