坑 sunken pit, hole (normally, of some unwholesome usage); to defraud; mine shaft, oil well 圠,亠,厂,土,亢,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コウ
KO　U

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

圠

アツ,エチ,かす anal gonorrhea, shitty end of the stick, dregs, scum, residual residue

　SOIL, FECES and DISEASED, CURLED, HIDDEN
…or: SHITTY BENT PENIS
　

亠

トウ,× emphasis on rod, palming, under control, covered

　THIS IS THE POINT emphasis on ROD, SEGMENT, ARRAY, INDICATES EXTENT
　

厂

カン,かりがね hand, cliff, curtain

　STRAIGHT UP and LATERAL
…or: ARRAY of ERECTIONS
…or: ROD ERECT
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

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

亢

コウ,たかぶる excited, aroused, stimulated; stretched neck; stiff, hard, firm; skilled hands; proud, overbearing; beating, thumping

　ALL, ANY, EVERY ROD
…or: PALMING HEAD of STRETCHED SKIN
　

Meanings of elements

GROUND, NIGHT SOIL with EXCITED STIFF SHAFT, EXCITED, AROUSED, STIMULATED, STRETCHED NECK

Left element formerly was「sloped terraced hill」using the same shape that is used as the euphemism for a human buttocks (阬), and the right element of「palm」covering「aroused and stretched skin, long and hard bamboo-like shaft」meant「shaft, hollowed out」or the INDENTATION FORMED WHEN BEING SHAFTED IN THE BEHIND, in Chinese as in English,「getting shafted, buggered」or DEFRAUDED, CHEATED. Later, the left element morphed into「ground, soil, dirt」(again, 'soiled' as used in English for 'smeared with feces' referring to sodomy, or, being anally raped).
Today in Japanese, a more literal usage applies of a MINE SHAFT or OIL WELL, but retains the concept of the soiled, opened hole or hollow shaft that might form after one's behind had been buggered, or「fudge-packed」as it were. The right element looks like an oil well gushing sticky black petroleum, and that element's implied final「spurting」action also as a「shaft in soil that spurts.」A covered mine shaft of resources, or jewels, with obvious double entendre.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: pit; hole; hole; pit; tunnel; to defraud
Japanese EDRDG: pit, hole
Unihan extended: pit, hole; bury, trap; harry

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.