将 to desire, to invite, to request, to lead, to draw out and cause to follow; checkmate, kill the opponent's king, sacrificial meat offering, invite for meat; just occurred, just about to occur, on the verge; high commander, army general, the boss 丬,⺼,ー,⺍,寸,寽,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ショウ　･　ソウ
SHO　U　･　SO　U

Kun-yomi

まさ(に　･　はた　･　まさ　･　ひきい(る　･　もって
ma　sa　ni　･　ha　ta　･　ma　sa　･　hi　ki　i　ru　･　mo　h　te

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丬

× piece of stiff wood, a woody, support from beneath, deathbed, bier

　DRIPPING ROD
…or: CONGEALING ROD
…or: CHANGING STATE with a ROD IN RECIPROCATING MOTION
…or: SUPPORTED FROM BENEATH
…or: ROD CHANGING STATES
　

⺼

× HTML entity: ⺼ body meat or flesh; meat of disintegrated feet; chicks and bunnies

　ERECTION and CLEVER with DROPS
…or: STIFF with CONGEALING and WRAPPED NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED BONES
…or: QUICK MOVEMENTS with FLEDGLING WING
　

ー

× HTML entity: ー repeated, bobbing

　REPEATED BOBBING
　

⺍

× HTML entity: ⺍ dazzle, flashes; fiery, light rays, sparkle, flames; loose stuff spewing

　emphasis on EMISSIONS
　

寸

スン,× squeezing grip, feeling the flow of fluids pumping, firmly holding above the elbow while measuring someone's throbbing heartbeat or pulse, ancient unit of measure (approximately an inch, 2.5 cm), careful hands

　ONE, ARRAY OF ITEMS, ROD HORIZONTAL with STREAM and emphasis marker below rod
　

寽

リン,リチ,リツ,と,つま a squeezing handful, a fistful, pinching, a pinch

　BODY MEAT OR FLESH, or REPEATED HEAD BOBBING and DAZZLE, FLASHES, FIERY, LOOSE STUFF SPEWING with SQUEEZING GRIP, FEEL OF FLUIDS PUMPING
…or: GRASP with SQUEEZING GRIP
　

Meanings of elements

BIER, BED and MEAT in SQUEEZING GRIP, FEEL OF FLUIDS PUMPING
…or: COOLING PROCESS with ROD and REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD and DAZZLING STUFF FLYING OUT with ROD STREAMING emphasized
…or: FISTFUL of DRIPPING ROD

Modern Japanese elements as「bed」with「repeatedly dazzling or grasping claw (formerly, 'meat')」and「squeezing grip」on meaty body parts that fits well with the meanings of TO DESIRE, TO INVITE, TO REQUEST, ABOUT TO OCCUR, all of which need no further explanation, nor do the elements as「repeated stuff flying out with squeezing grip of dripping rod」to mean something that JUST NOW OCCURRED, with DESIRE, so INVITE doing it again. Something ABOUT TO occur, ON THE VERGE, SACRIFICIAL MEAT, and so on applies as well, since treating female service providers as commodities was common, referring to them using the euphemism of a PALLET FULL OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT.
　Original version (將)「bier, litter, pallet, or stretcher」with「body, flesh, meat」with「rod streaming fluids, pulsing」perhaps depicting the body (or a portion thereof) of the opposing king, a CHECKMATE (using Western chess parlance), or his COMMANDING GENERAL on the VERGE of death, and/or being bodily desecrated, the REQUEST and DESIRE of the victorious lord.
　Original Chinese elements of「cold meat rod in squeezing grip」describes performing a selfie JUST A SHORT WHILE AGO, with the subsequent flagging flaccidity indicating to KILL THE KING.

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: to desire; to invite; to request; general; commander-in-chief (military); king (chess piece); to command; to lead; will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago
Japanese: commander, general, leader, exactly, surely, certainly, just, on the verge, duly, naturally
Unihan extended: will, going to, future; general
EDRDG: leader; commander; general; admiral; or; and again; soon; from now on; just about

Used within names (nanori)
かつ　･　かつり　･　すすむ　･　たか　･　ゆき

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.