板 glimpse of a head peeping; reversible wood (of any sort); clap, clappers, accented beat, hard and stiff 木,反,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ハン　･　バン
HA　N　･　BA　N

Kun-yomi

いた
i　ta

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
　

反

ハン,ホン,タン,そ,かえ,～かえ to be inside-out; to reverse the position of something, reversible; to roll, rolled, roll back; opposite direction or positioning from the norm; a contrary position

　ERECTION ARRAYED with CROTCH
…or: COVER YIELDING AGAIN
…or: HAND on CROTCH
…or: CROTCH CURTAIN
　

Meanings of elements

WOOD REVERSIBLE, OPPOSABLE
…or: WOODY at the PREPUCE

Original old Chinese meaning is to CATCH A GLIMPSE OF [a] HEAD…and「woody with prepuce」as the glans head peeping in and out of the sheath opening fits that description and meaning. Also most certainly「woody with hand in crotch」likely performing a fisting maneuver over the glans head might cause an observer to CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HEAD peeping out here and there.「Wood reversible」as those motions reversing in and out of the foreskin opening and fist: see 老闆 (「old man at the gateway to orifice quarters」), and all the later meanings in both Chinese and Japanese that refer to back and forth motions of hard wood in various states.
Meanings of a flat board were derived from「reversible wood」that in most cases literally required flatness and flipping over, rather than a rod shape moving in and out of something such as a sheath, one's「old man peeping in and out at the gateway to orifices.」See 爼 as the glyph literally meaning a chopping block or cutting board,「much whacking with meat pile.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to catch sight of in a doorway (old); see 老闆|老板, boss; board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious
Japanese EDRDG: plank, board, plate, stage
Unihan extended: plank, board; iron or tin plate

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?

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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.