款 goodwill, friendship; (law) article, clause or section; agree to a contract, mutual promises of one party to another, to take turns; collusion, conspire to work together with a buddy in a secret agreement 士,示,欠,

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カン
KA　N

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士

シ,さむらい penis, engorged male peaking genital-man

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: ROD UP and ARRAYED
…or: ARRAY of SCREWING
　

示

ジ,シ,しめ show, display, reveal, indicate, apparent, altar for sacrificed meat, religion, to discipline, to demonstrate, exemplify

　TWO RODS, CHANGE OF PHYSICAL STATE with STREAM OF EMISSIONS, YOUNG MINOR, SMALL HUMAN MOUND, DEEP FEELING
…or: RECIPROCATING ROD with DOWN and STREAM OF FLUID with EMISSIONS
…or: ROD and MALE ADULT BLASTING DISCHARGE FROM BARREL with EMISSIONS
…or: SMALL STEPS with EMIT DOWNWARD
　

欠

ケツ,ケン,か deficient, lacking, missing pieces, broken, to be short or shortened, fragmented, splintered, headless, to be chipped, to nick, to break, to crack, to lack, to be damaged, to be insufficient; decapitation, beheading, gaping, yawning, blowing hard, gap

　PERSON HEAD AND NECK IN DANGER
…or: HEAD ROLLED PERSON
　

Meanings of elements

DEFICIENT PENIS DISPLAYED
…or: PENIS OPENLY DISPLAYED and GAPING BLOWING HARD

「Penis display with gaping mouth.」「Gaping」necessarily depicts neither surprise nor a wanton desire (although, FRIENDSHIP and GOODWILL have been known to cause both…). Note that homosexual behavior was considered quite normal. It was a social「sin」not to procreate a son, but having sex homosexually was frolicking (defined as「being gay, care free, behaving uninhibitedly, romping, to engage in merrymaking, gaiety, recreational activity done for amusement or diversion from boredom」). Men performing fellatio, or「giving a displayed erect penis」a「hard blowjob, oral copulation」as the epitome of GOODWILL and FRIENDSHIP (that would be undeniably friendly).
「Penis displayed」that is「deficient, decapitated, missing some pieces」could naturally fall under legal rules in order to limit the spread of infection by restraining use, and to enable a proprietress to expel a client within the law as her legal right, backed by local human authority figures. Association with LEGAL CLAUSES may also be due to a euphemistic meaning: anyone with a penis deeply in his or her mouth, gagging as thrusts penetrate into the throat, is unable to speak, or, unable to speak intelligibly (words tend to become poorly enunciated), so that forcing someone to perform fellatio was a euphemism for silencing the person, with「legalese」aiming for the same general effect as a deep-throated job, albeit vicariously. Or the legalese itself sounds as if someone is attempting to speak with a mouth full of meat, and is therefore unintelligible (take your choice). Note that this glyph may also mean「to take turns…」You do me and I'll do you, as an exchange of mutual promises (a contract) often conspiratorially. Or rather, perhaps as the scholars explain, another person being able to look deeply into someone else's mouth, figuratively expressing ability to see all the underlying motives for words, speech, and text as legal CLAUSES.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: section; paragraph; funds; classifier for versions or models (of a product)
Japanese EDRDG: goodwill, article, section, friendship, collusion
Unihan extended: item, article; clause; fund

Used within names (nanori)
まさ

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.