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  • Glyph.11464
  • Strokes: 18
  • jlpt-N3 grade_04


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観
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カン
KA N
Kun-yomi
み(る ・ しめ(す
mi ru ・ shi me su

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Meanings of elements
HERON, HIGH AMBITIONS, HEAD-THRUSTING MATING DISPLAY and WATCHING
…or: LYING SUPINE with HAND PALMING PRICK DISPLAY and WATCHING GOAL OF COPULATION
「Watching herons」in「courtship dances and displays」to BEHOLD a grand SPECTACLE, a SPECTACULAR DISPLAY, and in such a situation, someone might OFFER ADVICE to another about where to look at any moment for the most outstanding「courtship display with thrusting heads.」「Looking as does a heron」LOOKING LEFT AND RIGHT and OBSERVING FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES. A heron, a「bird with head thrusting downward as it strikes at prey」turns its head continually from side to side as it wades in water, searching for fish, frogs, snakes and other food, and stops to OBSERVE FROM MULTIPLE ANGLES in order to gauge the correct position of prey after compensating for the differing light refraction qualities of air and water, using the results as ADVICE, ADVISING itself with regard to the best angle to strike its prey:「The herons and bitterns are carnivorous…and feed on a variety of live aquatic prey. Many species will also opportunistically take larger prey, including birds and bird eggs, rodents, and more rarely carrion.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron#Diet 2012-12-30 ] in other words, herons prey upon: juicy clams, chicks, bunnies, and raw meat.
Also describing the activities at a MONASTERY (see original glyph 觀) looking down at someone from a higher vantage point:「person lying supine with hand palming prick in mating display」and「looking, watching, goal of copulation」also might refer to folks forming a circle OBSERVING FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES and OFFERING ADVICE to a performing novitiate member.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese variant of 觀|观
Japanese EDRDG: outlook, look, appearance, condition, view
Unihan extended: see, observe, view; appearance

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.



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