航 water crossing, sailing, voyage, flight 舟,亢,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コウ
KO　U

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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
　

亢

コウ,たかぶる excited, aroused, stimulated; stretched neck; stiff, hard, firm; skilled hands; proud, overbearing; beating, thumping

　ALL, ANY, EVERY ROD
…or: PALMING HEAD of STRETCHED SKIN
　

Meanings of elements

BOATS HELD STIFFLY
…or: BOBBING IN WAVE-LIKE MOTIONS with TURBULENCE

「Boats」「held palm down and stretched stiffly」or「boats aroused, excited, bobs up and down」or「ship turbulence」formerly may have depicted boats or rafts lashed together to form a stiff floating bridge for a WATER CROSSING by an army, such as a pontoon bridge. As you might imagine, such a makeshift bridge would bob up and down in an excited manner as the army personnel stepped on each boat or vehicles crossed the rafts, not entirely unlike the action of someone spanking the monkey or flicking, diddling the bean (right element). Now, any sort of water crossing or AIRLINE FLIGHT or travel in a「ship」that is「exciting and bobs up and down stiffly」on the waves or air currents in「turbulence.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: boat; ship; craft; to navigate; to sail; to fly
Japanese EDRDG: navigate, sail, cruise, fly
Unihan extended: sail; navigate; ship, boat

Used within names (nanori)
わたる

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.