頃 a little while, a short while ago, after a while, approximately, not certain, head leaning to one side, land area of about 16.5 acres, approximate date of historical event レ,乚,一,匕,頁,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケイ　･　キョウ
KE　I　･　KYO　U

Kun-yomi

ころ　･　ごろ　･　しばら(く
ko　ro　･　go　ro　･　shi　ba　ra　ku

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

レ

× HTML entity: レ chew, masticate, bite; raised feet; mattock

　VERTICAL MOTION, ROD with HEAD UP AND IN
　

乚

イン,オン,かく,かか,よ appendage capable of spewing venom; concealed threat

　APPENDAGE CAPABLE OF SPEWING VENOM
　

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
　

匕

ヒ,さじ must remain sitting most of the time, device for scooping fluids, used for piercing or stabbing into

　REPEATED, BOBBING HEAD of PENIS
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL merged with PENIS
　

頁

ケツ,ぺえじ,おおがい,かしら head with face downward, to cogitate, facing, face, the head, page, one page of a book full of pages

　ARRAY of CEREBRAL FRONTAL LOBE EMISSIONS
…or: ROD, ONE SEGMENT with emphasis on EYEING GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: ROD with emphasis on FLESHPOT
…or: ARRAY of marked FLESHPOTS
　

Meanings of elements

CHEWED UP, MASTICATED, BITE AND SEIZE BETWEEN TEETH with SHORT ROD, INDICATES EXTENT, or, CURLED PENIS and HEAD, or, PERSON SITTING WITH NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET, DEVICE FOR GATHERING OR COLLECTING FLUIDS FOR A BRIEF TIME, SEXUAL SERVICES PROVIDER with HEAD WITH FACE DOWNWARD, COGITATE
…or: SITTING PERSON with ARRAY of SELF EMISSIONS

「Service provider or concubine as a person who needs to be sitting most of the time (匕 so popular in dynastic China)」with「head and face downward」a concubine with her feet in action, again, may have been another reason to be sitting with her head hanging down while the client is LEANING TO ONE SIDE using that foot for A LITTLE WHILE before leaning to the other side for the other foot.
「Raised leg with array of penis and cogitating」as AN APPROXIMATION of what the real thing might feel like while in the artificial vagina formed by the deep skin fold of the no-longer-integrated and squished foot.
Someone who needs to rest for A LITTLE WHILE due to being wounded, unconscious, too old to stand, someone punched, drugged, vomiting, or stabbed, etc., will normally LEAN TO ONE SIDE as if they have fallen or sat down just a LITTLE WHILE AGO (over a longer period, if conditions worsen, the person falls completely over, lies prone passed out, or dies). The「head leaning」position extends nicely to LISTENING INTENTLY (whudhesay?), BEING IN DOUBT, taking a guess or APPROXIMATE, and the all-important REVEALING THE NAPE OF ONE'S NECK, presumably a surefire sexual stimulant in China during the good old days, especially when combined with the ultra-erotic stench of bacteria colonies mixed with coagulated semen, gleet, and smegma in the skin folds of bound and no-longer-integrated feet.「Cogitating over bent penis and head」as LEANING TO ONE SIDE due to the buildup of internal scar tissue within the urethra, BEING IN DOUBT, taking a guess or APPROXIMATION of one's remaining season while alive.
Reference to a specific land area in dynastic China is obscure: who knows?

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩 or 6.67 hectares; a short while; a little while ago; circa. (for approximate dates); variant of 傾|倾
Japanese EDRDG: time, about, toward
Unihan extended: a moment; a measure of area equal to 100 mu or 6.7 hectares; to lean

Used within names (nanori)
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