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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
コウ
KO U
Kun-yomi
あらがね
a ra ga ne

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Meanings of elements
CULTIVATED, RECLAIMED SOIL, PLOWED THOROUGHLY, NEW FRESH MODERN METHODS with NEW FIELD, NEW MEAT and HEAD SLIDING IN AND UP with PUCKER-SHAPED FLOWER ORNAMENT, INLAID WORK, FILIGREE, MONEY, COIN, BEING PAID FOR SERVICES RENDERED and with HIGH-DENSITY PENETRATION of BELL CLAPPER
…or: CAVERN, WIDESPREAD BEHAVIOR OF HUMANS, CAVE OF WONDER and METALLIC, DIGGING GOLD, PERSON THRUSTING DOWNWARD with NUMEROUS, WIDE, TO SPREAD, WIDESPREAD, EXTENSIBLE, EXTENSIVE
…or: PERSON in DOWNWARD THRUSTING STANCE and FLASHING IN CAVE O' WONDERS
「Metal cavern, flashing yellow.」…glyph was perhaps designed during an era when humans had only a vague idea of anything in a metallic form. Metals existing naturally in a pure form are unusual. Normally metals are in a form of ORE. May have meant something akin to MINING FOR TREASURES IN THE ROUGH. Left elements「person taking stance with downward thrusting motions, digging」with「cave of yellow pus, flashing.」MINING FOR TREASURE may have referred to trying out all the service providers. Naturally, within caves were the easiest places to discover mineral ores, but long ago why would anyone have cared? rocks are not edible, after all. Caverns were the first abodes of humans, maybe noticing minerals that may have been accidently smelted from rocks near a campfire.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 礦|矿
Japanese: ore
Unihan extended: mine; mineral, ore
EDRDG: ore

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.


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