宴 house of prostitution; party, feast, banquet; getting laid in revelry and dining with an orgiastic gaggle of females all with a dexterous tongue; a bonobo party; being at rest, lying back, singing a song 安,曰,女,宀,妟,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

エン
E　N

Kun-yomi

うたげ
u　ta　ge

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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)
　

曰

エツ,いわ,のたま,ここに tonguing something, tongue in a mouth, speak, say; having a reason to do something, pretending, a pretext, excuse given to hide the true reason for something, rod within orifice or mouth

　ROD in ORIFICE, MOUTH
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH and ARRAYED
…or: RAISED ROD in CAVITY CONTAINMENT
…or: DIVINE, DIVA with IN-OUT, END-TO-END
　

女

ジョ,ニョ,ニョウ,おんな,め female

　ROD and LOOSENED with ERECTION
…or: HORIZONTAL with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED LOOSE FOOT and NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT BENT FOR WRAPPING
…or: LOOSENED with GASPING TENSION
　

宀

ベン,メン,× surround from above, deliberately out-of-reach, at home, roofed area

　SURROUND, COVERED ALL SIDES from above (marker)
　

妟

アン,エン,やす at ease with balmy feeling, lying down, cleared, soothing, female with dexterous tongue, escort service, girl for short-term hire, diva

Meanings of elements

TONGUING MOUTH, ROD in ORIFICE as TRINKETS, BAUBLES, CHEAP CUTE AND SAFE
…or: TONGUING MOUTH with RESTFUL EASE, INEXPENSIVE CONTENTMENT
…or: SURROUND FROM ABOVE with EASE, BALMY FEELING, LYING DOWN, CLEARED AND SOOTHING, FEMALE WITH DEXTEROUS TONGUE, ESCORT SERVICE, GIRL FOR HIRE, DIVA
…or: HOUSE of FEMALES with HAVING A REASON TO PRETEND, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON

「Surrounded from above, deliberately out-of-reach」「roofed house where the girls are always friendly」the smiley faces, happy to see you (at least, while in front of the clients). In China, the「singing girls」meant the pretty sluts on up to the professional concubines with bound feet, the girls with dexterous tongues who always get invited to all the parties and who honestly enjoy partying, who「cause you to lie down supine to relax」(if one had no such acquaintances, then the same sort of girls were available with a short-term rental plan from the shaman's shrine or temple nearby). FEASTING may refer to the vast amount of swallowing that is occurring all around the room. A house full of such females is a BROTHEL, literally a「house of broth, gravy.」
A dinner eaten lying upon cushions and with your head in the lap of a singing girl while she fed you morsels by her own hand, such as where the nobility might be found, is a FEAST, and later in more modern times, a BANQUET, or a FORMAL DINNER.
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary…, 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 ]
A DIVA is a highly distinguished female singer, and the word originates from「divine, a goddess, a really good singing girl」who was trained as the apprentice of a divining female, the local shaman witch doctor…「singing girl」is a euphemism for a superb sexual services provider, perhaps since she can use her tongue so well or because she causes her clientele to cry out loud and burst into hollering song. Shamans sold the services of these girls, and sold the girls themselves, too…called 'witch doctors' because they also sold divination services along with sex, and attempted to doctor you up after you contracted a sexually transmitted infectious disease in the 'temple of love.'

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: feast; repose
Japanese EDRDG: banquet, feast, party
Unihan extended: to entertain, feast; a feast, banquet

Used within names (nanori)
うた　･　やす

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.