翁 father-in-law, old man, venerable, father, bearded old guy; plumes emanating from a neck-like shaft, bird neck feathers 公,羽,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

オウ
O　U

Kun-yomi

おきな
o　ki　na

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

公

コウ,ク,おおやけ a male animal, the aristocracy, duke; public, unbiased, governmental, collectively-owned, common ownership

　YOUNG TINY AND SCREAMING with TAUT
…or: STENCH CLOUD with EMISSIONS
…or: TENDER HEAD and TAUT
…or: HEAD LOOSE DRIPPING and LEASHED
　

羽

ウ,は,わ,はね counter for birds, chicks, bunnies and coneys; plumes of stuff, concubine service provider in training; wings, feathers, two disintegrated feet with inner drippings

　COOLING PROCESS, CONGEAL STIFFEN, CHANGE BETWEEN TWO PHYSICAL STATES, DRIP BY DRIP, ONE DROP AFTER ANOTHER, FREEZE UP, CEASE MOTION with EXTREME TENSION, STRESS WITH PAIN AND GASPS, ROLLED TAUT AND TIGHT WITH SPRING-LIKE ACTION, NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED AND BOUND FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
…or: PRACTICE (doubled)
…or: WING (doubled)
…or: PLUMES (doubled)
…or: emphasis inside CLEVERNESS (doubled)
　

Meanings of elements

HUMAN MALE with PLUMES
…or: HUMAN MALE with YOUNG CHICK, BUNNY IN TRAINING
…or: EMISSIONS LOOSE AND STINKY with COOLING PROCESS, DRIPPING within BOTH NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FEET

「Public feathers」perhaps divided in the center of the chin, not uncommon for OLD, VENERABLE Chinese men with long beards, yet「short leg loose and dripping emissions」with「young chick, bunny, new concubine」also seems like an OLD MAN, or the old man of China, the emperor. Perhaps as in English,「one's old man」used in reference to one's FATHER. Older Chinese men had the wealth and wherewithal to purchase young chicks and bunnies as concubines, and not the younger set of males, generally. Fathers then and sometimes now believed it was their right and duty to train their children in the ways of sex: see 怙
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and [her owner] took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: elderly man; father; father-in-law; neck feathers of a bird (old)
Japanese EDRDG: venerable old man
Unihan extended: old man; father, father-in-law

Used within names (nanori)
お　･　おな

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.