机 pivot, opportunity, intention, quick-witted, engine, get your motor runnin', desk, a hand-rest, the organ 木,几,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キ
KI

Kun-yomi

つくえ
tsu　ku　e

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木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

几

キ,きにょう skin sheath, prepuce; stretched skin, skin that stretches significantly; how much? how many times? a place for your hand or arm, armrest

　CURTAIN with PENIS
…or: ROD SEGMENT within COPULATION
…or: ERECTION and THRUSTING FORWARD TAKING FLIGHT
…or: HAND with PENIS
　

Meanings of elements

WOODY STALK, STEM, IMPLANTED, SIMPLETON, ENCASED DEATH with SKIN SHEATH, PREPUCE, SKIN THAT STRETCHES SIGNIFICANTLY, HOW MUCH? HOW MANY TIMES? A PLACE FOR YOUR HAND TO REST

「Wood」with「stretched skin」meaning a place to write, or a DESK.「Wood」and「stretched skin, parchment」also makes sense as referring to a wooden object where parchment or vellum is used. In the old days, tanned hides and skins were often stretched over wooden desktops as a smooth writing surface (such desktops are still seen in antique furniture shops),…and if not permanently affixed to the top surface of the desk, skins of parchment or vellum were stretched and spread on the wooden surface in order to write upon them.
「A woody with stretched skin」in Chinese, meaning OPPORTUNITY, INTENTION (see 志, 故), QUICK-WITTED, one's ENGINE that drives or motivates, FLYING as a sex machine, a PIVOT upon which something screws, twists, or rotates, one's ORGAN or related to it as ORGANIC, and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: machine; engine; opportunity; intention; aircraft; pivot; crucial point; flexible (quick-witted); organic
Japanese EDRDG: desk, table
Unihan extended: desk; machine; moment

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.