徑 way, foot pathway, diameter, pass through, pass by, approach, track, narrow path, direct method, immediately, right now, pathway with a foot 彳,一,巛,工,巠,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケイ
KE　I

Kun-yomi

みち　･　こみち　･　さしわたし　･　ただちに
mi　chi　･　ko　mi　chi　･　sa　shi　wa　ta　shi　･　ta　da　chi　ni

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彳

テキ,たたず loitering, aimless dawdling, standing idle, purposeless motion, taking small steps, multiple people heads, multiple sliding rod heads, taking steps with the left foot only, adult man going, departing markedly from the usual or customary in an extreme or drastic manner

　multiple HEADS of PEOPLE
…or: multiple HEADS of A MALE PERSON
…or: multiple HEADS SLIDING on ROD
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

巛

セン,かわ extremely loose amorphous shape, potentially odoriferous

　LOOSENED, STUFF BEING FLUNG
　

工

コウ,ク,グ,× closed seam of flesh; planning and skill necessary to perform a job, skilled worker with various woods; a trade

　CLOSED ORIFICE
…or: VERTICAL within TWO MODES, CHANGING STATE
…or: UPPER joining LOWER
　

巠

ケイ,キョウ,× stream of fluid flow within soil of some sort, to pass through, the most direct path, a divine experience, religious services, array of loose flesh seams with skilled talent

　A PROFESSIONAL and LOOSELY FLOWING FLUID STREAM with ROD
…or: RECIPROCATING LATERAL ROD MOTION, ROD STALK, INDICATES EXTENT, ONE SEGMENT with LOOSELY FLOWING FLUID STREAM, ROOM TO MOVE FREELY, NOT TIGHTLY BOUND, RIVER FLOW, MISSHAPEN with SEAM OF FLESH SKIN, CRAFT AND SKILL NECESSARY TO PERFORM A JOB, PLANNING, TRADING ONE THING FOR ANOTHER, HAVING AN IDEA
…or: ARRAY of LOOSE FLESH SEAMS with CRAFTY SKILL NECESSARY TO PERFORM VARIOUS JOBS, SKILLED WORKER WITH WOOD, ARTISAN, THE MEANS TO GET THE JOB DONE
　

Meanings of elements

LOITERING, AIMLESS DAWDLING, STANDING PURPOSELESS MOTIONS, SMALL FOOT MOVEMENTS, MULTIPLE SLIDING ROD HEADS, ADULT MAN GOING, DEPARTING MARKEDLY FROM THE USUAL OR CUSTOMARY IN AN EXTREME OR DRASTIC MANNER with STREAM OF FLUID FLOW WITHIN SOIL OF SOME SORT, TO PASS THROUGH, MOST DIRECT PATH, DIVA EXPERIENCE, RELIGIOUS SERVICES
…or: STANDING PURPOSELESS MOTIONS with ARRAY of many LOOSE FLESH SEAMS
…or: SMALL FOOT MOVEMENTS with RECIPROCAL ROD MOTIONS and LOOSE STUFF with CRAFTY SKILL NECESSARY TO PERFORM VARIOUS JOBS, SKILLED WORKER WITH WOOD, ARTISAN, THE MEANS TO GET THE JOB DONE, TRADING ONE THING FOR ANOTHER, HAVING AN IDEA

「Aimless motions, small foot movements in a standing position」with「short soiled path」as the DIAMETER of something, or in other words, passing into and through the 'dead center' of something round, or made round due to penetration: a「rod in sliding motion with much stuff flowing many times and flesh seam.」
Or: FOOTPATHS through the woods were formerly created by animals other than humans, such as modern deer trails walked daily while foraging that, more often than not, are the shortest, the easiest, or the MOST DIRECT PATH from one point to the next, normally remaining on level ground and behind cover from predators as much as possible. Nevertheless,「loitering」at the shaman's「religious temple or shrine」IMMEDIATELY outside her cave o' wonders entrance was the beaten path and the shortest, easiest method for streaming into night soil.
Note that the Japanese word meaning「fool」includes the glyph for「deer, easy pickings」as someone on the footpath to the shaman's temples and shrines of love. Moreover, the English expression of 'remaining on the straight and narrow path' as it referred to finding and adhering to religious righteousness seems to have once meant staying on the beaten path to the shaman's religious house of divas to discover a divine experience, the way most-traveled by clients beating a path to her door, willingly falling into her better-built traps. Be sure to see 逕, and note that the modern replacement of the right element is 圣,「crotch with feces」if there remains any doubt.
FOOT PATHWAY could well be also described as a PATHWAY WITH A FOOT as depicted in erotic Chinese art, and by「aimless motions, small foot movements in a standing position」with「short soiled path」: men in dynastic China masturbated by wrapping no-longer-integrated feet around an erect penis:「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: footpath; track; diameter; straight; directly
Japanese EDRDG: path, diameter, method
Unihan extended: narrow path; diameter; direct

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.