犛 yak, black ox 一,枚,牧,未,攵,厂,牛,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ボウ　･　ミョウ　･　モウ　･　リ
BO　U　･　MYO　U　･　MO　U　･　RI

Kun-yomi

からうし　･　や(く
ka　ra　u　shi　･　ya　ku

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

枚

マイ,バイ,× peg, marching soldiers (as ridicule), used as a counter for anything thin and flat, pearl-like, pearly; classifier for medallions, rockets, satellites in orbit, flat round objects such as splats, and so on

　WOOD and WHACKED
…or: WOOD FORCED
…or: WOOD and PROSTRATE with CROSSING MOTIONS
　

牧

ボク,まき herding animals, keeping a herd, animal husbandry, to breed meat assets; government control, to govern

　CATTLE, HERDED MEAT STOCK, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY and COERCE, FORCE, INCITE ACTION, PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING
　

未

ミ,ビ,いま,ひつじ (zodiac) sheep; not yet; immature

　TREE NARROW
…or: WOODY NARROW
…or: SHORT ROD SEGMENT of WOOD
…or: CHANGING STATE of ROD with EMISSIONS
　

攵

ホク,× goad, coerce, force, incite action, prostrate and stroking, whacking

　SUPINE with PETTING CROSSING MOTION
…or: WHACKED and PROSTRATED
　

厂

カン,かりがね hand, cliff, curtain

　STRAIGHT UP and LATERAL
…or: ARRAY of ERECTIONS
…or: ROD ERECT
　

牛

ギュウ,うし cattle, herd meat asset, animal husbandry, beef meat, important thing, a cash cow, female animals providing milk and meat, animals as a store of future value and medium of exchange

　HEAD with TALENT
…or: HEAD on ROD VERTICAL TWICE
…or: HEAD with TWO HANDS
…or: PRONE and SCREWING
…or: ROD with HORSE
　

Meanings of elements

IMMATURE but COERCED, FORCED, INCITE ACTION with CLIFF, HAND, ERECT ROD and CATTLE, HERD MEAT ASSET
…or: HERD of LAMBS, IMMATURE MEAT ASSETS for INCITING ACTION in CAVE

Tibetan yak are genetically related to cattle, perhaps most closely to bison. Yak have extremely dense, long hair in various layers, and in this way resemble sheep. Behaviorally, both yak and sheep eat mostly grass, yaks never eat grain and sheep will only rarely, but cattle will eat grain daily. Yak have long been domesticated as work animals,「forced, incite action」and living inside the caves:「sheep-like domesticated, in cave, cattle.」
As described in many other glyphs, when an animal is「black」the cause is often related to being smeared from the rear with fecal matter as a result of the owner's gratuitous actions:「woody stub, peg in motion forced with hand on herd meat asset」or「forcing one's herd of ewe-like immature lamb meat assets in the cave o' wonders.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: black ox; yak
Japanese EDRDG: black ox, yak
Unihan extended: a black ox, a yak

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.