嶄 high, steep, precipitous; new, renewal 山,車,斤,斬,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ザン　･　サン
ZA　N　･　SA　N

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山

サン,セン,やま peaked, mountain-like shape, lava cone, eruptions, speculated area to be covered during an examination, wadded bundle of raw sticky threads, rod in sheath cavity, glans penis

　UPRIGHT VERTICAL MOTION within CAVITY
…or: ROD protruding from CAVITY
　

車

シャ,くるま rotation, wheel, cart, military vehicle, a well-oiled machine, greased axle; axel (rotation with human body), sequential screwing in orifice

　TURNING, SCREWING on both sides of a FILLED ORIFICE
…or: EXTENDED and ROTATING
…or: TWO in a MONKEY
…or: SCREWING a PLUGGING ORIFICE then SCREWING it again
…or: (three) sequential SCREWINGS in ORIFICE
…or: ARRAY of MONKEYS in LINE, with ROD, INDICATE EXTENT
　

斤

キン,× subtly cruel or malicious, prick-teasing, spiteful; cat-like behavior, pawing and scratching; hatchet, hand axe, hand held in shape of a hatchet in motion; unit of weight (approximately 500-600 grams)

　REPEATED HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY and STIFF ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT IN ANY DIRECTION and DOWN, ROD DOWN
　

斬

ザン,サン,セン,ゼン,き slow progress, decapitation, head loss, beheading with chariot wheels, serial axe murderer, an easy kill; sport of kings, killing time, bumpy ride

　ROTATION, WHEEL, CART, MILITARY VEHICLE with SUBTLY CRUEL OR MALICIOUS, PRICK-TEASING, SPITEFUL CAT-LIKE BEHAVIOR, PAWING AND SCRATCHING, HATCHET, HAND AXE, HAND HELD IN SHAPE OF A HATCHET IN MOTION
…or: SEQUENTIAL SCREWING IN ORIFICE and MALICIOUS PRICKING
　

Meanings of elements

ROD in CAVITY, GLANS with SEQUENTIALLY SCREWING IN ORIFICE and PRICK TEASING
…or: PEAKED, ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLES A MOUNTAIN SHAPE, LAVA CONE and SLOW PROGRESS, DECAPITATE, MURDER, AN EASY KILL, KILLING TIME, BUMPY RIDE
…or: EMERGE, PEAKED, GLANS, WADDED BUNDLE OF RAW STICKY THREADS and KILLING TIME, BUMPY RIDE, SLOW PROGRESS

If one「glans is beheaded」then there is a REASON FOR a NEW one that is likely in order.「Slow progress with glans」suggest a NEW partner, as would「LAVA eruptions in rotation with cat-like pawing motions.」「Slow progress with mountain」suggests not yet having learned the paths over a NEW mountain, as would「LAVA eruption and vehicle pawing, slow progress.」「Mountain-shaped beheading」is not likely related to actual mountains, since decapitating a mountaintop prior to the advent of nuclear weaponry was rather difficult, and not too necessary in most circumstances. Nevertheless, elements individually as「mountain vehicle pawing cat-like」describes the struggle to move one's cart up and over a STEEP PRECIPITOUS incline and then the decline.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: high; very; precipitous
Japanese EDRDG: steep or high mountain
Unihan extended: high, steep, precipitous; new

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.