鎌 tricky, clever, scythe, a fish's "neck"; gooseneck joint 金,兼,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

レン　･　ケン
RE　N　･　KE　N

Kun-yomi

かま
ka　ma

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

金

キン,コン,ゴン,かね,かな～,～がね metallic, digging, gold, person thrusting downward, valuables, testicles, source of wealth

　HAVING MORE THAN NEEDED, EXCESSIVE, TOO MUCH TO USE, SURPLUS, REMAINING, EXTRA RELAXED, I (USED BY EMPEROR ONLY) on ROD, INDICATES EXTENT
…or: PERSON, TAUT ERECTION with THRUSTING DOWNWARD FUCK, BECOME DRAINED OF FLUIDS, EBB, MAIN TRUNK SHAFT with SPURTING STANCE, PERCOLATING GUSHING HOT FLUIDS FROM HOLLOW SHAFT, ROD with EMISSIONS
　

兼

ケン,か,～か double, twice, holding two in position at once, simultaneous, two concurrent combined actions, unable, beyond one's ability, hesitate

　SPURTING STANCE and GRASPING TWO TAUT RODS while BOUGIE REAMING
…or: two merged BOUGIE REAMINGS, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
　

Meanings of elements

METAL CONCURRENTLY
…or: PERSON in DOWNWARD THRUSTING STANCE and HOLDING TWO

Scholars and dictionaries explain that these elements are「metal for cutting sheaves while holding two in your hand」that is, a SICKLE, SCYTHE, slingblade. Cutting two sheaves at once perhaps indicates TRICKY, CLEVER, but such an action by a serf does not seem overly clever or tricky, in reality, and is so simple that even most city folks could do this by the third or fourth attempt (assuming no self-inflicted injuries had yet occurred). Formerly the「cavern」element enclosed「two concurrently in hand」(鐮) but inside a cavern is not a normal location to find growing sheaves of grain being harvested…
Elements meaning「metal」are「person taking stance with downward thrusting motions」with the right element「hand with two thrusting, harvesting multiple shafts concurrently.」Perhaps some sexual service providers were normally「unable」to perform this action with「two in hand, concurrently」hence the original meaning of TRICKY, CLEVER and the extended meaning became SCYTHE as「metal harvesting multiple shafts concurrently」after that tool was invented. NOISINESS may refer to a single service provider doing three, five, or even possibly seven or eight clients at once (using all her ports simultaneously) as a large harvest of seeds…at least, we can easily believe this was attempted in dynastic China, since they seem to have tried most everything imaginable. Harvesting grains stalks with a sickle is not inherently noisy unless one loses a finger in the process.
Refers to the part of a fish directly behind the gills, since a「person thrusting in stance with grasping two concurrently」may have two fingers, one on each side, inserted in a fish's lower gills in order to carry it or hold it up for viewing.
GOOSENECK suggests grabbing the neck of some sort of shaft in a two-handed grip, and then doing with that neck whatever was the intent.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 鐮|镰
Japanese EDRDG: sickle, scythe, trick
Unihan extended: sickle

Used within names (nanori)
かた　･　かね

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.