貫 penetrate, pierce, become integrated with, threaded, bore a hole, flow through, beam of wood that penetrates all parts and ties together, brace, crosspiece, consistent 十,員,㗊,毌,貝,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カン
KA　N

Kun-yomi

つらぬ(く　･　ぬ(く　･　ぬき
tsu　ra　nu　ku　･　nu　ku　･　nu　ki

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

員

イン,× member, person(s) of a group, gathered around, cluster, clustering

　FLESHPOT ORIFICE
…or: a WEALTH of ORIFICE(S)
…or: ORIFICE as WEALTH
…or: ORIFICE with AIM, GOAL, EYEING EMISSIONS
　

㗊

× public use, public opinion, clamour, thunderous, protoplasm, slime, slimy, dark red pigment; porphyrin, stupid, slow

　MANY ORIFICES
…or: ROWDY BEHAVIOR, many JUXTAPOSED ORIFICES
　

毌

カン,つらぬ penetrated, pierced, perforated, punched holes, perverted or distorted screwing in loose orifice, to support, brace

　ACCUSE, ROWDY BEHAVIOR, FOUR ORIFICES and AN ARRAY OF RECIPROCATING MOTION HORIZONTALLY with ROD STALKS
…or: ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY, AN OPENING and FILLED COMPLETELY FULL, SCREWING, ROTATE, TWISTING, CLOSING A HOLE OR OTHER OPENING, PLUGGED, BLOCKED, TEN
…or: ROD fully penetrating both sides of MUCK-FILLED ORIFICE
　

貝

バイ,かい wealth, money, valuable outer shell, fleshpot, valuable external appearance

　AIM, EYE ON GOAL of EMISSIONS
…or: EYEING EXPERIENCE with EMISSIONS
…or: CENTER OF FLESHPOT with EMISSIONS
　

Meanings of elements

FILLED COMPLETELY FULL SCREWING, PLUGGED with MEMBER, PERSON(S) OF A GROUP, GATHERED AROUND, CLUSTER
…or: PENETRATED, PIERCED, PERFORATED, PUNCHED HOLES, PERVERTED SCREWING IN LOOSE ORIFICE of VALUABLE OUTER SHELL OF FLESHPOT, GOAL OF EMISSIONS

Elements of「pierced fleshpot」as a hole PIERCED, DRILLED, or BORED into a piece of meat, and perhaps becomes INTEGRATED within it after PENETRATION, resembling a CROSSPIECE extending from the hole. Also, a series of such PENETRATIONS, stringing meat together (串).「Pierced fleshpot, becoming integrated with, meat penetration」may well also depict deflowering a hymen…or a series of deflowerings by a lord.
An old unit of weight measurement equivalent to approximately 3.75Kg, or about 8 pounds, chunks of flesh pierced and strung together for use as supper meat that could be easily carried for trade, and then raised and lowered into the cooking cauldron perhaps to determine doneness or to carve up portions. Associated with currency, since various forms of meat, dead and alive, were formerly the only items of value that were traded.
For those who still believe the lower element can only refer to shellfish, PIERCING through the shell of exceptionally large brachiopods will also enable access to the meat of the animal inside the shell. Eight-pound shellfish may have been rather uncommon, even thousands of years ago, so stringing together clam meat chunks while gathering is perhaps more likely. A string of coins (minted deliberately with a hole in the center) or pierced shells forming a necklace, strings of semi-precious stones strings of beads worn by priests, monks, witch doctors, demon exorcists, and other such religious figures all became subsequently associated meanings as currency. Collecting cash, gathering clams, piercing fleshpot meat have been throughout history the integral basis of most organized religions.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together; string of 1000 cash
Japanese EDRDG: pierce, 8 1/3lbs, penetrate, brace
Unihan extended: a string of 1000 coins; to go through

Used within names (nanori)
つら　･　ぬく

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.