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カン
KA N
Kun-yomi
おちい(る ・ おとしい(れる
o chi i ru ・ o to shi i re ru

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Meanings of elements
TERRACED SOIL SLOPE and SNARE, TRAP, PITFALL, PIT HOLE HOME
…or: NAKED BUTTOCKS with HEAD and NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT and CAVITY HAVING TWO SETS OF LIPS as a TRAP, PIT HOLE HOME
…or: ASS and HEAD STRESSED IN HIGH TENSION LONG TIME in MEAT GRINDER
Ancient pit hole homes were often dug into the side of a hill, a slope.「Terraced slope, head and neck highly stressed and trapped」to mean COLLAPSE, CAVE IN, CAPITULATE, and to BE STUCK, literally or figuratively, after the walls cave in after a hard rain, an earthquake, or a landslide and become entrapped inside your pit hole home, a situation presently that is very bad, a condition of poor quality, finally being ground up into mincemeat or bits of human sausage by a collapsing household or house.
CONCEIVE OF AND HATCH A PLAN TO DECEIVE, ENTRAPMENT relates to「view of naked buttocks, head and neck or no-longer-integrated foot, cavity with two sets of lips」with all sorts of variations on those elements when associated with living in a household with purchased females as in dynastic China.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: pitfall; trap; to get stuck; to sink; to cave in; to frame (false charge); to capture (a city in battle); to fall (to the enemy); defect
Japanese EDRDG: fall into, cave in, fall (castle), slide into
Unihan extended: submerge, sink, plunge; trap

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.


Chinese usage: 63 entries


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