般 a sort or kind, a class; a way or manner of doing; carrier, carry; generally, all categories, an assortment ′,月,⺼,一,㇀,舟,殳,

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月

ゲツ,ガツ,つき proceptivity; month; the Moon, lunar positions, lunar phases; mooning position, meat, meat phases

　ERECT in HIGH TENSION with TWO ORIFICES over-under inside SPREAD LEGS
…or: ERECTION DRIPPING in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT, TENSE GASPS
…or: A REASON FOR TONGUING MOUTH within SPREAD LEGS
…or: ROD within ORIFICE within SPREAD LEGS
　

⺼

× HTML entity: ⺼ body meat or flesh; meat of disintegrated feet; chicks and bunnies

　ERECTION and CLEVER with DROPS
…or: STIFF with CONGEALING and WRAPPED NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED BONES
…or: QUICK MOVEMENTS with FLEDGLING WING
　

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
　

㇀

× HTML entity: ㇀ head, sliding in and up

　HEAD SLIDING UP, HEAD IN
　

舟

シュウ,ふね,ふな～,～ぶね sailing, being in a sailboat, bobbing in wave-like motions, a Chinese sailing junk

　emphasis being atop FLESH, ARRAY of MEAT
…or: (marked) SAILING with ROD
…or: emphasis on LONG TIME OF TENSE GASPS with STIFF HORIZONTAL MOTION and DRIPPING
　

殳

シュ,また,ほこ stretched skin of crotch, the tools of one's trade, weapon readied, spear-like shape, stiff wooden rod

　STIFF SKIN of CROTCH
…or: SKIN SHEATH with CROTCH, YIELD AGAIN AND AGAIN
　

Meanings of elements

emphasis on MEAT of ROD or HEAD UP AND IN with TOOL, WEAPON READIED, SPEAR-LIKE SHAPE, STIFF ROD
…or: BOBBING IN WAVE-LIKE MOTIONS with STRETCHED CROTCH SKIN

Individual elements are「arrayed segment of rod meat (emphasized) with stretched crotch skin」that may describe an ASSORTMENT, a SORT or TYPE, KIND or CLASS of service or meat, a MANNER or WAY OF DOING what needs to be done…such as CARRYING the meat in one's hands,「bobbing in wave-like motions with stretched skin of a crotch」and so on.
「Sailing」with「stretched crotch skin」: anciently, boats were often equipped with canvas sails that resembled stretched skin, although actual leather sails were also in use, smeared with bull's blood as waterproofing, sort of. The GENERAL method of propulsion for a「sailboat」(or 'junk') at the time was wind in a sail (diesel motors were difficult to come by in those days, and wind was free).
Sailing boats were used as CARRIERS of all types of cargo.「The structure and flexibility of junk sails make the junk easy to sail, and fast. Unlike a traditional square rigged ship, the sails of a junk can be moved inward, toward the long axis of the ship, allowing the junk to sail into the wind. The sails include several horizontal members, called 'battens,' which provide shape and strength. Junk sails are controlled at their trailing edge by lines much in the same way as the mainsail on a typical sailboat, but in the junk sail each batten has a line attached to its trailing edge where on a typical sailboat a single line (the sheet) is attached only to the boom. The sails can also be easily reefed and adjusted for fullness, to accommodate various wind strengths.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_%28ship%29 2012-08-02 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 般樂|般乐; sort; kind; class; way; manner
Japanese EDRDG: carrier, carry, all, general, sort, kind
Unihan extended: sort, manner, kind, category

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.