区 discriminate, differentiate a restricted part, zone, quarter or city ward, district, section 匚,乂,匸,メ,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ク　･　オウ　･　コウ
KU　･　O　U　･　KO　U

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

匚

ホウ,× contained restricted area

　ARRAYED in RIGHT-ANGLES
…or: ONE with NOOSE
　

乂

ガイ,カイ,ゲ,おさ,か subdue, get control of, to govern; whacking motion, give a whipping; crossed

　ONE SIDE THEN THE OTHER
…or: SLIDING DOWN and STRETCHED TAUT
…or: HEAD LEASHED
　

匸

ケイ,× unseen, concealed, death

　ONE, ARRAY in NOOSE
　

メ

× HTML entity: メ soft spot; become closed; weave, woven; fontanelle

　the HEAD with marker in center
　

Meanings of elements

WALLED CONTAINMENT for SHUTTLING MOTIONS
…or: UNSEEN, DEATH with WOVEN TOGETHER, WEAVING IN-OUT, BABES
…or: ARRAY of UNSEEN DEATH SNARES
…or: ROD DIRECTLY SNARED

Formerly designating the RED-LINED DISTRICT (today, perhaps referred to as the red-light district),「unseen, death」indicating unseen borders or「people to remain unseen」due to being in a different class strata from others, upper or lower. The glyph first was written as「outtasight orifices aplenty」(區) to mean DISCRIMINATE, DISTINCTION of「goods, services, many orifices」for sale or available as short-term rentals that were of a lower CLASSIFICATION or QUALITY LEVEL. Used to designate the SEGREGATED parts of a city, its QUARTERS, WARDS, ZONES by the same kind of discriminatory thinking and class levels of the residents. Either「gentle stroking, whacking」or「weaving, woven, shuttling motions」「contained babes」(connected by threads 糸) is used now as the internal element.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: area; region; district; small; distinguish
Japanese EDRDG: ward, district
Unihan extended: area, district, region, ward

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.