東 lord of the land, landowner, one's host, an invitation, inviting, unable to resist, split open, prime choice, selected, the chosen ones, packed or pounded hard; east 木,㗊,田,末,口,束,一,

注意：このページには、一部の読者にとって不快または不適切な内容が含まれている可能性があります。
Note: This page may contain content that is offensive or inappropriate for some readers.

MingLiU:

Mincho:

Gothic:

東

Login Welcome!　Introduction
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.

On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

トウ
TO　U

Kun-yomi

ひがし
hi　ga　shi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

㗊

× public use, public opinion, clamour, thunderous, protoplasm, slime, slimy, dark red pigment; porphyrin, stupid, slow

　MANY ORIFICES
…or: ROWDY BEHAVIOR, many JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES
　

田

デン,た plugged and filled orifice or cavity, wet area for implanting, wetlands, moist night soil, rice paddy, muck pool, slurry pit; public use, many orifices

　TEN in ORIFICE
…or: MANY, MANY ORIFICES
…or: BLOCKED, FILLED, SCREWING and ORIFICE, ENCLOSURE
…or: SOIL in CAVITY
…or: PENIS inverted in SPREAD LEGS
　

末

マツ,バツ,すえ tip, end, final stage, mature; descendants, offspring

　TREE TOP WIDE
…or: WIDE ARRAY of WOOD
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

束

ソク,たば,つか in a group bunched together; to bind, bound, tied, handle, manage, control, administer; bundled together, cluster; bundle of flashes

　VULVA, JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES with TREE, POLE, WOODY
…or: ORIFICE or TWO, ROWDY BEHAVIOR for WOODY
…or: WOODY in ORIFICE
…or: ROD in VULVA with EMISSIONS
…or: SCREWING in ORIFICE with EMISSIONS
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

Meanings of elements

WOODY STALK, STEM, WOODEN, A WOODY with PUBLIC USE, CLAMOUR, PROTOPLASM SLIME, SLIMY DARK RED PIGMENT, STUPID, SLOW and PLUGGED AND FILLED ORIFICE OR CAVITY, WET AREA FOR IMPLANTING, WETLANDS, MOIST NIGHT SOIL, MUCK POOL SLURRY PIT, MANY ORIFICES
…or: TIP, FINAL STAGE, MATURE WOODY ROD within ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY, PASSAGE OF THE BODY
…or: ROD in A GROUP BUNCHED TOGETHER, CLUSTER, BUNDLE OF FLASHES
…or: ROD in BINDING, TIED, MANAGED, BUNDLED TOGETHER
…or: WOODY inside PLUGGING MUCK ORIFICES
…or: WOODY inside TONGUING MOUTH
…or: ROD inside BUNCH OF SELECTED HAREM CANDIDATES

Scholars suggest a「sack on a pole that has burst open from fullness」after having become wet and swollen or due to loading contents too hard-packed, or deliberately split open to pull out some selected content. Chinese meanings as the LORD OF THE LAND, the LANDOWNER who has INVITED certain people SELECTED for special characteristics to join him, HOSTING them to live with him, as it were.
　Original elements of「managing, control, administer, a bundle」with two emphasis strokes added, one inside each「orifice」meaning「split, emissions」(柬) that morphed into「widened」(東) perhaps due to being just too inviting as the new harem entries, better known as「booty」(貴). flashing, flashes of light, brilliance (see 炗) in Chinese are euphemisms for orgasms, and the meaning of EAST refers to the「first flash, first beams of light to split the horizon」akin to the first splitting of a virgin, her first flash with a sack on a pole that has burst open from fullness (if the scholars are correct) after recruitment or purchase by the fief lord of the land.「Flashing」is of course also a euphemism in both English and Chinese for exposing one's genitals, and ostensibly consummation of some sort of sexual activity thereafter. Elements as「woody plugging orifices」or a「woody plugging a tonguing mouth」also refer to the lord of hosts in his harem.
　While it is tempting to suggest the glyph elements are the Sun behind a tree to depict a sunrise in the east, recall that the same scene might as well occur while looking west at the sunset…or north, or south, or in any direction, depending upon the time of day, the height of the tree, and where the observer is positioned.

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: east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord
Japanese: eastern Japan, eastern provinces, six-stringed Japanese zither
Unihan extended: east, eastern, eastward
EDRDG: east

Used within names (nanori)
あい　･　あがり　･　あずま　･　あづま　･　こ　･　さき　･　しの　･　とお　･　はる　･　ひが　･　もと

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.