按 to keep one's hand on, put a hand on, press down with a hand, to pat, to rub, to investigate, to feel around and find out what is there, control, restrain, to leave aside or to shelve 扌,安,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

アン
A　N

Kun-yomi

おさ(える　･　しら(べる
o　sa　e　ru　･　shi　ra　be　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

扌

シュ,× talented, using both of one's hands to accomplish a task

　TALENT
…or: USING BOTH HANDS
…or: ARRAY of STREAMS with SLIDING HEAD IN
　

安

アン,やす safe, security, peaceful, restful, ease, contentment; inexpensive; in good health; a trinket, bauble, cheap cute and safe

　FEMALE AT HOME, UNDER ONE'S OWN ROOF, DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH (OF OTHERS)
　

Meanings of elements

TALENTED USING BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK and SAFE, SECURITY, PEACEFUL, RESTFUL, EASE, CONTENTMENT, INEXPENSIVE and IN GOOD HEALTH
…or: TALENTED USING BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK with A TRINKET, BAUBLE, CHEAP CUTE AND SAFE
…or: FEMALE AT HOME DELIBERATELY USING BOTH OF HER TALENTED HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK

A lord keeping a「female deliberately using her talented hands to accomplish a task」as SHELVED, PUT ASIDE or using some method to CONTROL, RESTRAIN her PATTING, RUBBING, KEEPING HER HANDS ON AND PRESSING DOWN so as not to spoil any natural ardor when he himself desires to play with her. Nonetheless, she will eventually be forced to use her「talented hands to accomplish this task」to PAT herself, RUB, PRESS WITH A HAND, and so on, particularly if she is continually ignored. Other listed meanings likely need no further explanation than the elements themselves: see 調 for details of this sort of INVESTIGATION, and 抑 with 押 for CONTROL with RESTRAINT.

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: to press; to push; to leave aside or shelve; to control; to restrain; to keep one's hand on; to check or refer to; according to; in the light of; (of an editor or author) to make a comment
Japanese: to investigate, to consider, to plan, to pat, to rub, to take a sword in one's hand
Unihan extended: put hand on, press down with hand
EDRDG: hold; consider; investigate

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.