断 judgement, warning, failure, decline, refuse, abstain, abstention; decisive, sever, cleanly chop 丷,析,∟,米,斤,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ダン
DA　N

Kun-yomi

た(つ　･　ことわ(る　･　さだ(める
ta　tsu　･　ko　to　wa　ru　･　sa　da　me　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丷

× emit upward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
　

析

セキ,× divide, analyze, separate; to split wood, castration using a hatchet, to chop off, to chop meat into small pieces, to mince, mincemeat

　WOOD, WOODY and CHOPPED, CAT-LIKE, SUBTLY CRUEL
…or: WOODY with PRICK-TEASING
　

∟

× direct, square, right-angled

　VERTICAL with LATERAL, HORIZONTAL
　

米

ベイ,マイ,メエトル,こめ,よね sticky blob or splat, many seeds in one place, grainy, puckered, flaming, rice

　EMIT IN ALL DIRECTIONS with SCREWING
…or: EMISSIONS SPURTING UP from WOODY
…or: ARRAY of items, ROD with STICKY FLUID EMISSIONS
…or: RODS in all directions DRIPPING on all sides
　

斤

キン,× subtly cruel or malicious, prick-teasing, spiteful; cat-like behavior, pawing and scratching; hatchet, hand axe, hand held in shape of a hatchet in motion; unit of weight (approximately 500-600 grams)

　REPEATED HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY and STIFF ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT IN ANY DIRECTION and DOWN, ROD DOWN
　

Meanings of elements

EMIT SPURTING UP and DIVIDE, ANALYZE, SEPARATE, TO SPLIT WOOD, CASTRATION USING A HATCHET, TO CHOP OFF, TO CHOP MEAT INTO SMALL PIECES, TO MINCE, MINCEMEAT and DIRECT
…or: DIRECT with STICKY BLOB OR SPLAT, FLAMING, MANY SEEDS IN ONE PLACE and CRUEL MALICIOUS PRICK-TEASING, SPITEFUL, HATCHET
…or: SPLAT from HANGED and HATCHET

Glyph has been simplified to「splat, sticky wad」inside「square, right angle」(that previously held four「loose and dripping」(斷) now morphed to「one big splat」). With a「hanging rope or pole, hanged」perhaps the modern element is depicting the big splat of a bloody and severed head or other body parts often used as punishment in dynastic China after a JUDGEMENT, to serve as a WARNING to anyone else who might see the victim/ criminal「pawing with hands like a cat」in a death throe, or crawling around on all fours like a reptile for the remainder of life.
Right element as「hatchet, chop」also meaning to SEVER CLEANLY. Some suggest the meaning was 'no more loose threads' in a textile, but—who cuts cloth with a hatchet? more likely, 'none of those stringy tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, or nerves dangling' or the「loose threads」of a rebellion, as SEVERED CLEANLY AND SQUARELY AND DECISIVELY, EXECUTE JUDGEMENT. Severed body parts were often displayed impaled on lances, or hung from tree limbs tied by the victim's own hair, to serve as WARNINGS to the living and assert GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY and JUDGEMENT EXECUTED by the feudal lord or king. Punishments and executions as「splats from puckered orifice while pawing cat-like into the air」depicts someone dangling from a noose, or just prior to a beheading, with understandable incontinency or as the spontaneous release from various relaxing sphincters after death. Public executions were very popular with the crowds, and continue to be popular today, often used as an integral part of moving pictures and video games, for some odd reason.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly
Japanese EDRDG: severance, decline, refuse, apologize, warn, dismiss, prohibit, decision, judgement, cutting
Unihan extended: sever, cut off; interrupt

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.