院 an institution of some type, temple, religious cloister, imperial palace, title bestowed on empresses and princesses, post-graduate research, government organization, hospital 阮,宀,元,⻖,完,

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阮

ゲン,× surname, musical sounds, tooting, squeaks, queefing sounds, flatulence, instrument for making musical tones

　TERRACED SOIL SLOPE, REAR VIEW OF NAKED BUTTOCKS and TWO COPULATING, UNIT OF MONEY
…or: NAKED BUTTOCKS and AN ARRAY OF ITEMS with STUPID, ALONE
…or: NAKED BUTTOCKS and REFERS TO WHATEVER OCCURRED FIRST, ORIGIN, SOURCE
　

宀

ベン,メン,× surround from above, deliberately out-of-reach, at home, roofed area

　SURROUND, COVERED ALL SIDES from above (marker)
　

元

ゲン,ガン,もと unit of money, refers to whatever occurred first: primary, origin, source; former

　CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STATE with COPULATION
…or: TWO COPULATING
…or: ONE time TIPSY
…or: ROD UNSTABLE
　

⻖

× HTML entity: ⻖ terraced soil slope, soil hill, rear view of naked buttocks, a fundament

　VERTICALLY TERRACED SLOPING BACKSIDE
　

完

カン,× completeness, finished, perfection, nothing more to add; intimated pedophilic incest

　PREFERENCE FOR BEING TIPSY
…or: CALM AND PEACE with ROD COPULATION
…or: RATHER, PREFERENCE FOR, STANDING and COPULATING with ROD
…or: RATHER, PREFERENCE FOR, CAUSED TO BECOME ERECT, BEING WITHIN A VESTIBULE with HAIRLESS PLACE, BALD SPOT
…or: RATHER, PREFERENCE FOR COPULATING ALONE
…or: DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH AT HOME with ROD and COPULATING ALONE
…or: CALM AND PEACE with UNIT OF MONEY
…or: DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH AT HOME and TWO COPULATING
…or: AT HOME with ORIGINAL, OCCURRED FIRST, TWO COPULATING
　

Meanings of elements

TOOTING, SQUEAKS, QUEEFING SOUNDS, FLATULENCE, INSTRUMENT MAKING MUSICAL TONES and SURROUNDED, DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH ROOFED AREA
…or: NAKED BUTTOCKS and DELIBERATELY SURROUNDED by UNITS OF MONEY
…or: SOIL SLOPE, NAKED BUTTOCKS with COMPLETENESS, FINISHED, PERFECTION, NOTHING MORE TO ADD
…or: COMPLETE ASSES DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH
…or: SOILED NAKED BUTTOCKS with INTIMATED PEDOPHILIC INCEST

「Terraced hills, slope」and「complete」as perhaps referring to terraced slope farming as the INSTITUTION that caused settled human communities. Or, meaning that a terraced sloping embankment completely surrounds something granting only limited access. In this case, an earthen or other wall forming a courtyard inside with an important building: an INSTITUTION or some significant edifice, often build on a foundation raised higher than the surrounding area as is a hill, that requires an embankment wall to keep people in or out for some reason. Individual elements may make more sense, however, as「deliberately out-of-reach, wide and lofty on a hill」again describing a LARGE BUILDING used as some sort of INSTITUTION. Elements also might be read as「backsides and a houseful of squatting, copulating idiots」or「calm and tipsy asses」or「complete asses」as a somewhat unkind depiction of being institutionalized, or, what was thought as the goings-on at temples, shrines, and palaces. Elements also possibly「preference for rod copulation with buttocks」and Buddhist temples in particular were rumored to be places that sported that particular peculiarity. As a title bestowed on empresses and princesses, and as post-graduate research, no explanation should be necessary.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: courtyard; institution
Japanese EDRDG: institution, temple, mansion, school
Unihan extended: courtyard, yard, court; school

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.