肝 liver, vital, essential, vital organs, guts (as in courage), spunky 月,⺼,干,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カン
KA　N

Kun-yomi

きも
ki　mo

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

月

ゲツ,ガツ,つき proceptivity; month; the Moon, lunar positions, lunar phases; mooning position, meat, meat phases

　ERECT in HIGH TENSION with TWO ORIFICES over-under inside SPREAD LEGS
…or: ERECTION DRIPPING in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT, TENSE GASPS
…or: A REASON FOR TONGUING MOUTH within SPREAD LEGS
…or: ROD within ORIFICE within SPREAD LEGS
　

⺼

× HTML entity: ⺼ body meat or flesh; meat of disintegrated feet; chicks and bunnies

　ERECTION and CLEVER with DROPS
…or: STIFF with CONGEALING and WRAPPED NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED BONES
…or: QUICK MOVEMENTS with FLEDGLING WING
　

干

カン,ほ,～ぼ,ひ thrusting downward, to fuck, become drained of fluids, ebb; defensive; main trunk or shaft

　INVERTED PENIS, ROD DOWN
…or: ARRAY of SCREWING
　

Meanings of elements

BODY DEFENSE, DRY, DRAINED

Something VITAL for the「body's defenses.」The LIVER cleans the blood and「dries」you out by metabolizing alcohol, and「drains」the body of toxins. The LIVER is the largest internal organ in the human body (skin being the largest organ overall), and the liver is the only internal organ that is capable of regeneration after damage or partial removal, that is to say, if approximately one-quarter of healthy tissue remains, then a person's liver can grow larger and eventually reach full size again. There is another organ that swells and enlarges to reach full size, seemingly「growing larger」and is the right element of an「inverted downward thrusting penis.」Note that if a person's LIVER fails, death is sure and swift, and that「body is as if in the throes of an inverted downward thrusting penis.」Perhaps as pun, the glyph also means VITAL ORGAN (as either an inverted downward thrusting penis as meat, or, the liver as meat), and GUTS, COURAGE (needs no further explanation, perhaps, as the path to parenthood).
Not coincidentally, Chinese medical knowledge identifies the LIVER with genitalia:「The external genitalia, both in females and males, are circulated by the liver main channel, and the liver luo channel.」
[ https://www.acumedico.com/female.htm 2014-06-22 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: liver
Japanese EDRDG: liver, pluck, nerve, chutzpah
Unihan extended: liver

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.