鷴 silver pheasant, male's badge of honor 門,樢,閑,鳥,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カン　･　ゲン
KA　N　･　GE　N

Kun-yomi

とび　･　しらきじ
to　bi　･　shi　ra　ki　ji

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

門

モン,かど,と the way further inside, entrance, gateway; teachings of a master, school of thought, methodology, section, division, clan; classifier for large blasts

　RECIPROCATING RODS in TONGUING MOUTHS with FLUID STREAMING
…or: TWO MEATS and PRETENDING with ROD STREAMING
…or: ROD STREAMING with many JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES
　

樢

ト,チョウ,つた duck, vine, exceptionally long corkscrew-shaped twisted woody appendage

　BIRD with a WOODY
…or: WOODY with a BIRD
　

閑

カン,× restful, quiet, leisure, relaxing, remaining idle, unoccupied, within an enclosure

　A WOODY and within THE WAY FURTHER INSIDE, ENTRANCE GATEWAY, TEACHINGS OF A MASTER, SCHOOL OF THOUGHT, METHODOLOGY, SECTION, DIVISION, CLAN
　

鳥

チョウ,とり bird, chick

　OPEN-MOUTHED ARRAYED TENSE with MANY EMISSIONS
…or: OPEN TONGUING MOUTH and HAIRLESS IN HEAVEN, DIVINE with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET and MANY EMISSIONS
…or: HABITUATED to RAISED ROD and TENSE GASPING with MANY EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

THE WAY FURTHER INSIDE, GATEWAY, TEACHINGS OF A MASTER with EXCEPTIONALLY LONG CORKSCREW-SHAPED WOODY APPENDAGE
…or: RESTFUL, QUIET LEISURE, RELAXING with BIRD, CHICK
…or: WOODY inside GATEWAY of CHICK, BIRD

Pheasants seldom bother to fly. Pheasants do not live long, either. The male badge, with「hard-on woody」as the inner element:「Rank badges were worn by men in the Chinese civil service and military. Each category had nine ranks. The civil service used birds to identify someone's position, while the military used real and mythological animals. The silver pheasant was the fourth highest rank that could be achieved.」
[ link now-dead was https://www.dresstheworld.co.uk/nottingham/media/41556 2013-08-22 so instead see https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/26228 ]
Note that the「fourth-highest」rank of nine possible would be the fifth rank.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: silver pheasant (Phasianus nycthemerus); silver pheasant badge worn by civil officials of the 5th grade
Japanese EDRDG: silver pheasant badge worn by civil officials of the 5th grade
Unihan extended: silver pheasant badge worn by civil officials of the 5th grade; Lophura species (various)

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.