拱 fold hands on breast in bowing salute; to brown-nose; to dig soil with one's snout; arched back in lordosis position; to stand by and watch, rooting by inserting one's pig snout into night soil 扒,龷,扌,共,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キョウ　･　コウ
KYO　U　･　KO　U

Kun-yomi

こまぬ(く　･　こまね(く
ko　ma　nu　ku　･　ko　ma　ne　ku

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

扒

ハイ,ハツ,ハチ,ぬ,さば to crawl, hold on to, cling to; to dig up, to rake; to strip off of

　TALENTED, USING BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK and DIVIDE, SPLIT, EMIT, ISSUE
　

龷

× HTML entity: 龷 cooperating, buddy system, working jointly, both, piled one on top of another, layered

　two SOIL or UPWARD THRUSTING elements in close contact
　

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
　

共

キョウ,とも,～ども communal, communist, a commune; to share commonly, all together; cooperating, buddy system, working jointly; both; one on top of another; layered; an orgy

　multiple NIGHT SOIL EMISSIONS
…or: COOPERATIVE EMISSIONS
…or: COMMUNAL EMISSIONS
…or: DUO of UPWARD THRUSTING with EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

CRAWL, CLING TO and COOPERATING
…or: DIG UP, TO RAKE, STRIP OFF PILED SOIL with EMISSIONS
…or: TALENTED USING BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK with ORGY, COMMUNAL, COMMUNIST, COMMUNE, SHARE COMMONLY
…or: BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS and ONE ON TOP OF ANOTHER, LAYERED

TWO-HANDED SALUTING while at attention, sticking one's nose into soil from below, and arching one's back while lying down all suggest the「orgy in layers on top」meaning of the right element. Underlings cooperating with overlords and doing anything required. DIGGING SOIL WITH ONE'S SNOUT does not generally relate to normal behaviour of humans, unless the reference is to BROWN-NOSING.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch; to dig earth with the snout; arched
Japanese EDRDG: arch, fold arms
Unihan extended: fold hands on breast; bow, salute

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.