斷 sever, cleanly chop, decline, decisive, judgement, warning, failure ∟,丨,幺,一,斤,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ダン
DA　N

Kun-yomi

た(つ　･　ことわ(る　･　さだ(める
ta　tsu　･　ko　to　wa　ru　･　sa　da　me　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

∟

× direct, square, right-angled

　VERTICAL with LATERAL, HORIZONTAL
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

幺

⺕ウ,ちいさい tiny smallest youngest, most tender, the one, professional care needed, never-ending, figure-eight shape; shouting screaming hollering what!?

　LOOSE UNBOUND with DRIPPING STENCH CLOUD
…or: emphasis on even more emphasis on LOOSE DRIPPING STENCH, SELF SECRET PRIVATE
　

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
　

斤

キン,× subtly cruel or malicious, prick-teasing, spiteful; cat-like behavior, pawing and scratching; hatchet, hand axe, hand held in shape of a hatchet in motion; unit of weight (approximately 500-600 grams)

　REPEATED HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY and STIFF ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT IN ANY DIRECTION and DOWN, ROD DOWN
　

Meanings of elements

DIRECT, HANGING with ROD STALK and with many WHAT!? SCREAMING AND HOLLERING MOST TENDER, PROFESSIONAL CARE NEEDED, NEVER-ENDING that INDICATES THE EXTENT with SUBTLY CRUEL OR MALICIOUS, PRICK-TEASING, SPITEFUL CAT-LIKE BEHAVIOR, PAWING AND SCRATCHING, HATCHET, HAND AXE

「None of those stringy tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, or nerves dangling」SEVERED CLEANLY AND SQUARELY AND DECISIVELY, EXECUTE JUDGMENT. People who suffered the punishment of feet amputation, testicle mashing, castration, hands ears noses lips cut off, what have you…served as WARNINGS to others who might see the disfigured person wallowing on remaining limbs crawling through the street mud and「begging, pawing like a cat」of the JUDGEMENT and power of GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY…those folks normally could thereafter only be employed as palace clowns, as entertainment for royalty, paid in tossed food scraps for a good performance. Severed body parts were often displayed impaled on lances, or hung from tree limbs tied by the victim's own hair, to serve as WARNINGS to the living and assert GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY and JUDGEMENT EXECUTED by the feudal lord or king, EXECUTIONS. Left element is「loose and dripping」twice with「hanged, square or right angle」(twice again), depicting「completely severed squarely」and CUT CLEANLY (a mass execution?). Glyph has been simplified to what looks like「big splat」inside「square, right angle, hanging rope」depicting the big SPLAT of a bloody SEVERED heads or sets of male genitals flying, with「hatchet, chop」meaning to SEVER CLEANLY. Suggests activities of the Red Queen.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly
Japanese EDRDG: sever, cut off, interrupt
Unihan extended: sever, cut off; interrupt

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.