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王
王

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オウ ・ ~ノウ
O U ・ NO U

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Meanings of elements
WIDE ARRAY of LAND
…or: WIDE ARRAY of DIRT, NIGHT SOIL
…or: WIDE ARRAY of FLESH SEAMS
「Array of land」depicts a KING, and「the CROWN」symbolizes rulership over a country, the authority of the king. Later, the crown came to refer to the KING himself, just as with many kingdoms of the West. Ancient Chinese crowns actually were of this shape: squarish, large on the bottom to fit the head, with a narrower tube-like middle, and another squarish plate-like feature on top, and with strings of jewels hanging down the front and back.
「Wide array of flesh seams」also suggests a KING with harem, an expected feature of rulership in the old days, as does「array of feces, array of soil」as the regent's lands. Fecal slurry was used as fertilizer on crops and rice paddies, with food production being a true source of wealth for a kingdom.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to rule; to reign over; king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great
Japanese EDRDG: king, rule, magnate
Unihan extended: king, ruler; royal

Used within names (nanori)
おお ・ おおきみ ・ わ

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 196 entries


Chinese usage: 293 entries


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