馘 cutting off the left ear of slain enemies, tally of enemy dead 丷,咱,戈,戛,口,㇀,首,或,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カク　･　キョク
KA　KU　･　KYO　KU

Kun-yomi

くびき(る　･　みみき(る
ku　bi　ki　ru　･　mi　mi　ki　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丷

× emit upward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
　

咱

サツ,サチ,シャ,われ I or me; we, us

　ORIFICE with MYSELF
…or: MOUTH and CEREBRAL FRONTAL LOBE
　

戈

カ,ほこ,ほこづくり swinging lance, spear, pike, halberd, long-handled blade as a weapon; dagger-axe, wagging one's baculum

　WOODEN STAKE, SHOOTING, TAPERED WOOD FOR DRIVING INTO SOIL and THE HEAD, SLIDING DOWN
　

戛

カツ,ほこ to lance, tap or strike lightly, chirps, tapping one's lance lightly while emitting chirping sounds involuntarily, to scrape, a custom, customary

　LATERAL MOTION, ONE and PERSONALLY BY MYSELF with WILD DOG BACULUM, LANCE, SPEAR
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

㇀

× HTML entity: ㇀ head, sliding in and up

　HEAD SLIDING UP, HEAD IN
　

首

シュ,くび power of authority; proper behavior; head person, chief; head; decapitated head held by the neck; counter for poems and songs, self-love, showing love to oneself, the head, hanged, hanging and dangling

　SPURTING CEREBRAL FRONTAL LOBE
…or: SELF SPURTING ARRAY of ROD EMISSIONS
…or: SPURTING STANCE with emphasis on GOAL, AIM, CONTENT
　

或

ワク,コク,イキ,あ,あるい,あるいは uncertain; or possibly; muddled, potential failure, outcome or status in doubt

　ERECT WILD DOG PENIS in ORIFICE REPEATEDLY or UPWARD THRUSTING HEAD
…or: PUNCTURING PENETRATIONS INTO ORIFICE and REPEATEDLY
　

Meanings of elements

EMIT UPWARD SPURTING STANCE with I ME WE US with SWINGING LANCE and SLIDING IN HEAD AND UP
…or: TAP OR STRIKE LIGHTLY WITH LANCE, CHIRPS, TO SCRAPE OFF, A CUSTOM, CUSTOMARY and SLIDING IN HEAD AND UP with EMITTED ORIFICE, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY, AN OPENING
…or: POWER OF AUTHORITY, DECAPITATED HEAD with UNCERTAIN OR POSSIBLY MUDDLED, POTENTIAL FAILURE, OUTCOME OR STATUS IN DOUBT

While being in the possession of someone else's left ear suggests at least that the donor was in a disabled condition, it is「unclear, muddled」whether that condition was in fact death (in other words, the enemy may have lost an ear but still be alive, perhaps in a conspiracy of some kind). While a severed ear of the enemy obviously provided less meat than the severed head in its entirely, they were lighter weight and less messy. Only the left ears (not the right) were used in order to prevent double counting of the tally of dead.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: cut off the left ear of the slain
Japanese EDRDG: behead, dismiss
Unihan extended: cut off left ear; tally dead enemy

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.