汽 steam, vapor, gas; brackish 氵,气,

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氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

　emphasis on MANY DRIPS, DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS
…or: MANY TIMES DROPS
　

气

キ,ケ,いき spirit, mind, mood; air, atmosphere, gas, odor; to be enraged; tempestuous

　PRONE PERSON with ROD FORWARD THRUSTING, TAKING FLIGHT
　

Meanings of elements

FLUID as SPIRIT

Glyph for「water」(水) refers to cold, fresh water from rivers or lakes (not salty from the sea, and not warmed or heated water). The meaning of STEAM from「fluid spirit」is then fairly understandable.「Bodily fluid flows from persons prone and array of thrusting horizontally」can be a bit salty and arise from a STEAMY situation (see 滊, this glyph combined with「sticky splats of whitish seeds」). Steam of course is never salty, being the product of evaporation and distillation, processes that separate water molecules from salts and other material dissolved in water. Some sources list the meaning as BRACKISH, perhaps derived from fluids having the form (or「spirit」) of fresh water as it were, but not really being the same substance as fresh water. BRACKISH water is slightly salty, in a place where rivers and sea water combine and mix, mostly from daily tidal action or the mouth of a river.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: steam; vapor
Japanese EDRDG: vapor, steam
Unihan extended: steam, vapor, gas

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.