巧 extreme skill; skillfully plot and plan; lucky opportunity; opportune moment; coincidence 工,丂,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コウ
KO　U

Kun-yomi

たく(み　･　たく(む　･　うま(い
ta　ku　mi　･　ta　ku　mu　･　u　ma　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

丂

コウ,さまた hold breath, gasping; long time of extreme tension and stress

　SEGMENT of NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
…or: LATERAL MOTION with BOUND NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
…or: ROD with HIGH TENSION GASPING
　

Meanings of elements

CRAFTWORK, TIGHT FLESH SEAM with ROD in EXTREME CONDITION of LONG STRESS HIGH TENSION AND GASPS
…or: SKILL, TRADING ONE THING FOR ANOTHER, FLESH SEAM with ROD on NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT

In Japan, where they have not generally practiced foot-dis-integrating, the elements are understood as「planning, working skillfully, with craft」with「gasping for air due to a condition of extreme stress」that refers to EXTREME SKILL, or, being tired from working diligently while DEVISING A PLOT, PLANNING A SCHEME demonstrating CLEVERNESS, so that both elements reinforce the meaning of the other element.
In Chinese, these two elements depict opposite conditions that by a great stroke of luck have occurred AT THE SAME TIME. Two things occurring COINCIDENTALLY, literally 'co-' (「two」) 'incidents,' or a LUCKY COINCIDENCE, a TIMELY OPPORTUNITY, or an OPPORTUNE moment to take action. Left glyph indicates a「flesh seam」with「skill, craft, planning, cleverness.」Right glyph of「in an extreme condition of long stress gasping」as a「rod with a no-longer-integrated foot.」…so, to happen across a professional sexual services provider willing to engage in a very short-term rental of a flesh seam in her or his body, that is a LUCKY COINCIDENCE, a TIMELY OPPORTUNITY, or an OPPORTUNE moment to take action. The two different interpretations by Japan and China have evolved nearly opposite meanings of THOUGHTFUL PLANNING AND SKILL, and GREAT COINCIDENCE BY GOOD FORTUNE, respectively, because in Japan the feet of little girls were not commonly no-longer-integrated and tightly bound for life in order to create fuckbunny sex buddies as they were in dynastic China.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely
Japanese EDRDG: adroit, skilled, ingenuity
Unihan extended: skillful, ingenious, clever

Used within names (nanori)
かつ　･　たくみ　･　よし

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.