桔 Chinese bellflower, pith, inner substances, cornsilk 木,吉,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キツ　･　ケツ
KI　TSU　･　KE　TSU

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

吉

キチ,キツ,よし auspicious, lucky, good, joy, congratulations, full orifice, penile insertion filling some sort of orifice, penile orifice, penis with mouth, one billion, giga-

　PENIS with ORIFICE
　

Meanings of elements

PLANT, STALK, STEM, WOODY with MOUTH THAT IS FULL, AUSPICIOUS, GETTING LUCKY, PENILE INSERTION INTO MOUTH, ORIFICE

「Plant getting lucky」is the bellflower or balloon flower, referring to the balloon-shaped flower buds that open into a bell shape after the round balloon bud at the tip of the shaft bursts open. White juice exudes from its stem (when cut), and the stem is connected to a thick root. Syrup extracted from the root is used to make sweet desserts. Root extracts are also used as traditional remedies for throat ailments.
Cornsilk resembles exuded plumes of stringy discharges spurting from the tip of a phallic-shaped, sheathed seed package. Chinese sources equate this glyph with 橘 meaning「mandarin orange, citrus. Cuckoo.」…see that glyph as to why.
FLOWERS, the euphemism for concubines and harem members, as in the English word「deflower」to describe the initial sexual experience of a virgin.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 橘; Platycodon grandiflorus
Japanese EDRDG: used in plant names
Unihan extended: Chinese bellflower; well-swept; the inner fibers of corn-stalks

Used within names (nanori)
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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.