画 a drawing, a picture, a graphical description, to map out demarcation zones, brush strokes 丅,田,㗊,一,凷,由,凵,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ガ　･　カク　･　エ　･　カイ
GA　･　KA　KU　･　E　･　KA　I

Kun-yomi

えが(く　･　かく(する　･　かぎ(る　･　はかりごと　･　はか(る
e　ga　ku　･　ka　ku　su　ru　･　ka　gi　ru　･　ha　ka　ri　go　to　･　ha　ka　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丅

カ,ゲ,した,しも,もと,さ,くだ,お down, rod down

　DOWN
　

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
　

㗊

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

　MANY ORIFICES
…or: ROWDY BEHAVIOR, many JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES
　

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
　

凷

カイ,ケ,かた,つちくれ a hardened mass (of something), clod, lump; clot, cluster; a large mass (of something); compacted, turds, lump of dung, piece of excrement

　NIGHT SOIL in CAVITY
…or: PENIS in CAVITY
　

由

ユ,ユウ,ユイ,よし a cause, causation, the reason for [something], falling drops, extraction; from, follow

　SCREWING in FILLED ORIFICE
…or: PENIS in CAVITY
…or: ROD in PLUGGING MUCK ORIFICE
　

凵

カン,× cavity, open container, receptacle, bin

　THREE-SIDED and OPEN
　

Meanings of elements

ARRAY of EXTRACTION, CAUSATION OF DROPS DRIPPING in CAVITIES
…or: ARRAY of PLUGGING ORIFICES and CAVITIES
…or: ROD DOWN with CONTAINED MUCK ORIFICES

「Contained, quarantined blocked orifices for plugging」or「down plugging a muck-slurry orifice」or, same elements could just as well be「array」of「dripping causation from cavities」by DRAWING A DIAGRAM of graphic DESCRIPTIONS of various sexual activity and the ensuing problems of infection, since no one could read yet, the government authorities needed to literally DRAW A PICTURE of places on a MAP in demarcation zones that were off-limits, the activities that caused the transfer of infection, and how to identify the symptoms of disease. Relates to the English expression,「I get the picture.」
Then again, elements also describe DRAWING A DIAGRAM of how to find these places in town when searching, a map of where the brothels are for someone seeking to visit, making it easier to locate all the various sites. The sword of government regulation cuts both ways at times, another one of those ideas that「seemed like a good idea at the time.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to draw; picture; painting; classifier for paintings etc; variant of 劃|划
Japanese EDRDG: brush-stroke, picture
Unihan extended: a painting, picture, drawing; to draw

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.