蓋 a covering such as a flap, lid, conceal, hide or protect by covering; perhaps or perhaps not 芸,丨,皿,艹,盍,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ガイ　･　カイ　･　コウ
GA　I　･　KA　I　･　KO　U

Kun-yomi

ふた　･　けだ(し　･　おお(う　･　かさ　･　かこう
fu　ta　･　ke　da　shi　･　o　o　u　･　ka　sa　･　ka　ko　u

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

芸

ゲイ,ウン,う,のり,わざ rue, an herb used to keep insects away, action that causes abortion; to be buried in soil; books, skilled performance; artistic accomplishment

　PLANT with STINKY CLOUD
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS with SURGING STENCH
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

皿

ベイ,さら container, trough, basket, tray, plate, dish, wide pan, vessel, bowl, basin, netting claptrap on rod

　NETTING on ROD
…or: NETTING to the FULL EXTENT
…or: SNARED ONE
…or: SPURTING STANCE in SPREAD LEGS
…or: SURROUNDED BY COPULATION ARRAY
…or: RODS UP in SPREAD LEGS
…or: multiple ORIFICES, GOODS in ARRAY
…or: CONTAINMENT SURROUNDING a SPURTING ROD
　

艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり fucking, emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

盍

コウ,おお,なんぞ why not?; rancid, cover

　GONE RANCID on TRAY, NETTING CLAPTRAP ON ROD
　

Meanings of elements

ROD in RUE, HERB USED TO KEEP INSECTS AWAY, ACTION THAT CAUSES ABORTION, BE BURIED IN SOIL, SKILLED PERFORMANCE, ARTISTIC ACCOMPLISHMENT with NETTING CLAPTRAP ON ROD
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS and WHY NOT? RANCID, COVER

Scholars suggest these elements as「plants」that might be assumed as woven into a blanket shape, used as the COVER, LID over a「tray of rottenness」to COVER, PROTECT, and to HIDE it when necessary. Meat soon became spoiled in the era prior to refrigeration (fruits, vegetables and grains normally need no refrigeration)…yet, such a cover would not prevent meat spoilage, or protect from flies. Means PERHAPS or PERHAPS NOT referring to a doubtful condition of something fetid and possibly spoiled, putrid, or rancid.
「Emerging shafts」「fetid, or, dead and gone」in「netting on tray」suggests the need to COVER, PROTECT, and to HIDE, CONCEAL the problem from others by adding a FLAP to one's loincloth after one's meat becomes fetid and possibly spoiled, putrid, or rancid.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build
Japanese EDRDG: cover, lid, flap
Unihan extended: cover, hide, protect

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.