雅 dignity; elegance; refinement, high-class; gracious, graceful, festal singing, ivory phallus 牙,隹,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ガ
GA

Kun-yomi

みや(び
mi　ya　bi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

牙

ガ,ゲ,きば,は tooth, fangs, tusks, ivory; sharp protrusion

　INDICATES EXTENT, AN ARRAY OF ITEMS and ACCUMULATION, COUNTER FOR AGE IN YEARS
…or: HORIZONTAL ROD with BITING and STREAMING HEAD
…or: HORIZONTAL ROD with RAISED LEG and STREAMING HEAD
　

隹

サイ,スイ,とり primate mating stance, male human or bird in courting stance, flaunting one's best point, narcissism, loving oneself in full plumage display or while displaying a plume, public display of affection for one's own bird or pecker

　PERSON PALMING ROD PRICK
…or: CORE EMPHASIS on FLESH SEAM SKILL
…or: HEAD SLIDING on UPRIGHT ROD with PALMING CONTROL of PRICK
…or: EMPHASIS on KERNEL OF HUMAN NATURE and TALENTED HANDS USED TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK
　

Meanings of elements

IVORY PROTRUSION with PRIMATE MATING STANCE, FLAUNTING ONE'S BEST POINT, NARCISSISM, LOVING ONESELF
…or: TUSKS with MATING DISPLAY

It may be intuitively obvious that any sort of「mating display」among「tusked」critters, in particular elephants, ought to be ELEGANT, GRACEFUL and DIGNIFIED, since the risks of injury are great all around:
「Adult bulls enter a state of increased testosterone known as musth. …Male elephants become extremely aggressive during musth. Among both musth and nonmusth bulls, size is the determining factor in agonistic encounters. However, in contests between individuals from the two groups, musth bulls win the majority of the time, even when the non-musth bull is larger. A bull may stop showing signs of musth when it encounters a musth bull of higher rank. Musth bulls of equal rank tend to avoid each other. Agonistic encounters typically consist of threat displays, chases and minor sparring with the tusks. Serious fights are rare.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant 2012-12-28 ]
「Once a male wins enough dominance battles and can approach a female, he begins caressing her with his trunk and pressing his tusks against her back to symbolize that he wants to mount her. He will often sample her urine to make sure she is in estrus. If she is receptive to his advances, she will show affection by entwining trunks. If the female decides to mate with this male, they will temporarily move away from the rest of the herd. Eventually, he will mount her and attempt to impregnate her.」
[ https://sciencing.com/elephants-mate-4574022.html 2023-05-17 ]
No comment regarding warthogs, though. Nonetheless,「ivory with mating display, loving oneself」describes a prime material uses for fashioning dildoes in dynastic China, a DIGNIFIED, ELEGANT, REFINED, HIGH-CLASS, GRACEFUL method of the safest sex, and climaxes with FESTAL SINGING.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: elegant
Japanese EDRDG: gracious, elegant, graceful, refined
Unihan extended: elegant, graceful, refined

Used within names (nanori)
う　･　お　･　か　･　ただし　･　のり　･　まさ　･　まさし　･　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.