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Meanings of elements
ARRAY of ONE-OF-A-KIND
…or: SUN like PHEASANT PLUME
…or: TONGUING MOUTH and GUSHING PLUMES
「Array of one-of-a-kind」describes the unique name of each day in the week.
 「Sun like pheasant tail plumes」: a bird with grand plumage, long tail feathers, and colorful wings all as if in a continuous「flashing, brilliant courtship display.」The Sun appears to move in the sky each DAY OF THE WEEK in an arc, rising in the east and setting in the west at two different points along the horizon, similar to the shape of a pheasant plume. Pheasants are birds that spend most of life on the ground, in tall grass, and recall that other glyphs meaning sunrise () and sunset () have been suggested as depicting the Sun among tall grass or reeds.
 Pheasants fly rather slowly while making a great deal of commotion as if still「in training」and are easily noticed, as is the Sun during the day. Pheasants do not normally fly far when disturbed, usually only about 100 meters or so, similar to an arc across the sky to the horizon but not beyond. Pheasants are all「young」with the average lifespan typically of one year. Pheasants lay eggs but then continue walking, often not returning to incubate or roost, as does the Sun continue relentlessly across the sky each day without stopping.
 Depicting the seven known ancient, dazzling luminaries winging their way through the heavens each day, like brightly colored「days of pheasants」as Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, with one luminary associated with each day of the week, respectively. Elements literally as「day with very young girl having newly-no-longer-integrated feet in training with person palming prick in mating display」is also suggestive of a noticeable, colorful bright spot that cannot move quickly and only moves in one direction, away from the pricks (tall grasses) in the morning but settles in with them each night…further speculation regarding why these specific elements have been used for each day of the seven-day week is up to you. Note the ancient Chinese used a ten-day week.
 Interestingly, some Japanese versions of this glyph use multiple「grasping and reaming」() elements or「gushing chunks」(, without the 'head' attached) rather than the two congealing no-longer-integrated feet elements used in traditional Chinese glyphs, yet both sets of elements could describe a「plume」only that in the Japanese case the referent may be to release of a long, arching discharge of fluids under pressure by a medical services provider rather than to no-longer-integrated feet that were not commonly found in Japan. Needless to point out perhaps is that the Chinese uses of two no-longer-integrated feet () also were designed to cause the same sort of release of fluids under pressure in long, arching spurts and gushing chunks while flashing brilliantly.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: bright; glorious; one of the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy
Unihan extended: glorious, as sun; daylight, sunlight; one of the seven planets of pre-modern astronomy (the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)
EDRDG: weekday

Used within names (nanori)
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Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.



Japanese vocabulary: 38 entries


Chinese usage: 12 entries


  • Glyph.11568
  • Strokes: 18
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