坂 inconvenient place, difficult to reach or remain at, inclined slope, hillside 土,反,

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ハン
HA　N

Kun-yomi

さか
sa　ka

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土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: RODS UP
…or: ROD within A FLESH SEAM
　

反

ハン,ホン,タン,そ,かえ,～かえ to be inside-out; to reverse the position of something, reversible; to roll, rolled, roll back; opposite direction or positioning from the norm; a contrary position

　ERECTION ARRAYED with CROTCH
…or: COVER YIELDING AGAIN
…or: HAND on CROTCH
…or: CROTCH CURTAIN
　

Meanings of elements

GROUND OPPOSES
…or: SOIL, FECES with PREPUCE, FORESKIN
…or: HAND IN CROTCH and SOILED

[Japanese glyph] as you climb a HILL or a SLOPE, it seems that the「ground opposes」your upward progress, and nearly as much effort can be required to prevent yourself from stumbling down a steep slope as it does to climb one, that is, the「ground opposes」your efforts to slow down—ask anyone with injured knees. DIFFICULT TO REACH as might be walking up or down a steep slope.
Alternatively,「hand in crotch with shit」refers to an INCONVENIENT PLACE, DIFFICULT TO REACH as perhaps the action of an obese person attempting to wipe up after defecating.「Foreskin with feces」refers to an INCONVENIENT PLACE, DIFFICULT TO REACH after dipping in shit, the shitty end of the stick, and so on…note that this glyph is a Japanese variant of 阪,「naked human backside with skinned back penile sheath.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese or nonstandard variant of 阪
Japanese EDRDG: slope, incline, hill
Unihan extended: hillside, inconvenient places

Used within names (nanori)
か　･　ざ

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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