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  • Glyph.12052
  • Strokes: 19
  • jlpt-N3 grade_04


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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ガン
GA N
Kun-yomi
ねが(う ・ ~ねがい
ne ga u ・ ~ne ga i

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Meanings of elements
ORIGIN, PRIMAL, PRIMITIVE, RAW CAUSE, SOURCE, GRAMMATICAL PLURAL FORM INDICATOR FOR A CLASS OF HUMAN BEINGS and HEAD FACE DOWNWARD, COGITATE, FACING HEAD
…or: HAND and TONGUING MOUTH of SMALL YOUTH, STREAMING EMISSIONS with ARRAY OF FLESHPOTS with emphasis, or PERSONAL EMISSIONS
「Primitive, primal, raw with face downward at the fountain-head」describes HOPED FOR WISH, DESIRE an ENTREATY, EARNEST REQUEST. Or, some members have suggested the idea here is that the source of any serious PETITION is in one's head, perhaps thinking about it face downward, before making any serious ENTREATY, REQUEST, and then asking humbly with head bowed, a「fountainhead」of mental activity in the「head that is the source」of DESIRE and a request.
A further strained interpretation utilizes the「flat plain, plateau」meaning of the left element as「flattened, level」with「head face downward」suggesting that someone has bowed over facing the ground, with the torso and「head plateaued」while PETITIONING a favor, a posture not uncommon in Japan when making a request today, one that in the old days literally required a petitioner to place his/her face flat on the floor, level with the ground, touching the forehead to the dirt.
Nevertheless, a「head with a fountain, white conspicuous small and young」「facing downward」on「arrayed erection, open-mouthed tonguing with small stream of emissions」unmistakably describes a wholly different attitude and source of DESIRE, but one still REQUESTING, PETITIONING, ENTREATING an action HOPED FOR, WISHED to have something done for oneself, dream fulfillment.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing; sincere
Japanese EDRDG: petition, request, vow, wish, hope
Unihan extended: desire, want; wish; ambition

Used within names (nanori)
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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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