晏 calm, peaceful, tranquility, slow speed, after working hours, personal time; dead emperor, late, recently deceased 妟,宀,女,日,曰,安,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

アン
A　N

Kun-yomi

おそ(い
o　so　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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

宀

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

　SURROUND, COVERED ALL SIDES from above (marker)
　

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
　

日

ニチ,ジツ,ひ,～び,～か Sun, day, bright and flashing, brilliant, heat, hot

　CIRCLE DIVIDED
…or: TWO STACKED ORIFICES
　

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
　

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)
　

Meanings of elements

FEMALE WITH DEXTEROUS TONGUE, ESCORT SERVICE, DIVA, AT EASE WITH BALMY FEELING, LYING DOWN, CLEARED AND SOOTHING and DELIBERATELY OUT-OF-REACH
…or: A TRINKET, BAUBLE, CHEAP CUTE AND SAFE FEMALE for TONGUING SOMETHING IN A MOUTH, HAVING A REASON, PRETENDING A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING, ROD WITHIN ORIFICE OR MOUTH and AT REST
…or: DAY of REST
…or: TONGUING MOUTHS AT REST
…or: TONGUING MOUTHS and INEXPENSIVE
…or: TONGUING MOUTHS and SAFE

Sources say the「sun at rest」perhaps depicts a peaceful sunset that is late in the daylight portion of each day, but even the Chinese knew that the Sun never did actually rest, and there are plenty of sunsets that are not peaceful, with one occurring every day during wars, typhoons, flooding, famines, pandemic plagues, and other disasters…but they do occur late in the daylight portion of each 24-hour day, generally.
Others suggest that the「day of resting in peace」and「late」(same meaning as in English) refers to the death of the emperor (晏駕). More likely than「sun at rest」these elements are「tonguing mouths at rest, the tonguing mouths of the household females」and refer to the emperor being recently deceased, currently unable to feel the efforts of his vast harem of concubines any longer, where there is now CALM, TRANQUILITY since the daily schedule of diva action has been necessarily suspended…even the eunuchs got a break. Or, perhaps it means simply that no one was speaking. After the emperor died, the next guy normally wanted to gather his own harem rather than continue with most of the 'used meat' that belonged to his predecessor (with some exceptions, naturally), so some pretty nice「tonguing mouths of (normally) out-of-reach females」with very little wear (but some tear, torn tissue tags for that matter) became available for sale after the culling in almost the same condition as might be available on the showroom floor, safe (relatively) and cheap (relatively), pre-trained and vetted, and so on, but likely made available only at an auction attended by an inner circle of crony aristocrats.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: late; quiet
Japanese EDRDG: late, quiet
Unihan extended: peaceful, quiet; clear; late in the day

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.