項 neck shaft with hair, nape of the neck; heading, item, clause, phrase, article, mathematical variable or term; paragraph 貢,一,′,工,頁,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コウ
KO　U

Kun-yomi

うなじ
u　na　ji

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貢

コウ,ク,みつ free labor, tribute, contribute, a gift, gifting, gifted

　FLESH SEAM of FLESHPOT
…or: TRADING CRAFTS at CAULDRON
…or: SKILLED, TRADING ONE THING FOR ANOTHER with GOAL OF EMISSIONS
　

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
　

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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
　

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

TRIBUTE MANIFESTED in ARRAY
…or: SKILLED WORK with HEAD FACING DOWNWARD AT PAGE
…or: HEAD FACING DOWNWARD at FLESH SEAM

「Tribute arrayed with emphasis」as all the presented concubines bow head down before their new lord, in an array of NECK NAPES. Delivery as per the articles of agreement negotiated between the victorious and vanquished lords, respectively. Contracts often have blank spaces in which a variable is inserted to complete the terms of the mutually exchanged promises, such as, 'you won't be slaughtered today if you deliver 1,000 [fill in amount] concubines next month.'
　「Skillfully performing a job」and「person's head with face downward」reveals the NAPE of the NECK, as might a「head down looking at a flesh seam.」Modern meaning is also a HEADING or a legal contract's ARTICLE description, a grammatical CLAUSE or PHRASE that「holds together two sides as does a seam」or other verbiage that is read or written while「working with head facing downward at flesh seams」always contains a VARIABLE, an unknown quantity at the start.
　「Person's head face downward with flesh seam」describes reading a PAGE of a book. Recall that the first books were actually long scrolls of parchment or vellum (both made from animal skins) sewn together into long strips wound around two wooden rods, one fastened at each end (see 本).

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: back of neck; item; thing; term (in a mathematical formula); sum (of money); classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc
Japanese: nape, nucha, clause, paragraph, item, argument, term
Unihan extended: neck, nape of neck; sum; funds
EDRDG: paragraph; nape of neck; clause; item; term (expression)

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.