鯉 bastard carp, crucian carp, Asian carp 魚,里,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

リ
RI

Kun-yomi

こい
ko　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

魚

ギョ,うお,さかな,～ざかな aquatic animals (refers not necessarily solely to "fish" in the modern cladistic sense, and includes cetaceans); wet and slippery meat, fishy smell, to catch a sucker

　HEAD AND NECK with CLOSED ORIFICE and MANY EMISSIONS
…or: DANGER, LOOKING UP and FILLED MOUTH with MANY EMISSIONS
…or: HEAD SLIDING and ROLLING, GASPING in SLURRY, MUCK ORIFICE with MANY EMISSIONS
…or: HEAD SLIDING and GASPING in RICE PADDY with MANY EMISSIONS
　

里

リ,さと internal lining, inside soil walls, pathway into night soil, one's birthplace origins upbringing or past, hometown, hamlet, countryside, rural; prostitution district, area of special administration, measurement testing for inclusion

　PADDY with CLAY, SOIL, FECES
…or: PRICK within ORIFICE, SPREAD LEGS
…or: PLUGGING ORIFICE(S) with FECES
…or: HARD-BODIED ROD, PLOWING in CAVITY
…or: SCREWING in FECAL ORIFICE
　

Meanings of elements

FISH of HAMLET
…or: SLIPPERY MEAT and PLUGGING WET MUCK-FILLED ORIFICE with SHIT

A「fish that lives in mud, muck」is a CARP (ever tasted one?). A「fish」(freshwater, not the sea) possibly eaten by folks living in a「hamlet」away from the sea or a large river and trading ships, and living with what may be considered lesser means, a CARP. Carp were released into flooded rice paddies in an effort to keep down the number of breeding mosquitoes, since the fish will devour the larvae, and as anyone from the Great Lakes region or Chicago canal system in North America knows, Asian carp are fairly difficult to kill. Integrated Carp Farming in Asian Country:「Asia has been the cradle of integrated crop-livestock-fish (mainly carp) farming systems, which evolved by themselves since the inception of human civilization particularly when the human settlements started moving more towards inland leaving the river banks. And to meet their water requirements they started constructing rain or flood fed water retention/detention structures which formed the nucleus of such [integration]. Based on empirical knowledge of the farmers, the systems have a history of over two millennia in parts of south and southeast Asia.」
[ https://www.fao.org/3/AC236E/AC236E00.htm 2023-05-18 ]
CARP may have been depicted by this glyph also due to the manner in which it often swims, with its mouth near or at the surface, causing the fish's back to「rise up」and break the water's surface, appearing a little like the「raised dirt paths in a hamlet」that the right glyph literally depicts, particularly if the CARP are schooling. Note that SHAD resemble Asian carp or bastard crucian carp to an astonishing degree, and the two are often confused.

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

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.