基 alkaloid; counter for installed or mounted objects and machines; a fundament, home base, based upon, basic; chemical fundamental radical of base elements; firm base, foundation 坩,一,ハ,其,土,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キ
KI

Kun-yomi

もと　･　もとい
mo　to　･　mo　to　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

坩

カン,つぼ crucible; vessel formed from soil

　SOIL, CLAY, FECES, OPIUM with WILLINGNESS TO COMPLY, SMILING SWEETNESS, TO PRESUME UPON ANOTHER PERSON, NAIVE, TO COAX, TO PAMPER, SWEET AND LIGHTLY SALTED
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

ハ

× HTML entity: ハ emit downward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
…or: HEAD TAUT
　

其

キ,ギ,ゴ,それ,その that is mine, ours, etc.; that; carefully selected; [possessive case used grammatically]; a given, a possible option

　SMILES, WILLINGNESS of FLESHPOT
…or: TO PRESUME UPON ANOTHER with SUPPORTED FROM BENEATH
…or: DIVINE IMPLEMENT for RAISED RODS
…or: SWEETNESS on the TABLE
…or: DIVINE MEAT PILE
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: RODS UP
…or: ROD within A FLESH SEAM
　

Meanings of elements

CRUCIBLE, VESSEL FORMED FROM SOIL with ARRAY of EMISSIONS
…or: THAT IS MINE with GROUND
…or: CAREFULLY SELECTED and OPIUM
…or: POSSESSIVE CASE, A GIVEN, A POSSIBLE OPTION and FECES

「Carefully selected」and「opium」describes ALKALOIDS, pH BASE CHEMICALS:「Opium is the air-dried milky exudation obtained from excised unripe fruits. It is extensively smoked as an intoxicant. …Opium is largely used for manufacture of morphine, codeine, narcotine, laudenine, papaverine, and many other alkaloids. …Thrives in rich, well-manured soil, in hot to warm regions.」
[ https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Papaver_somniferum.html 2015-11-27 emphasis ours ]
「That is mine」with「ground, soil, feces」as a FUNDAMENT, HOME BASE, a solid FOUNDATION, FUNDAMENTALLY…particularly in view of the upper element that depicts deflowering a helpless girl, or boy, as excised unripe fruits, and early humans engaged in sex much like modern bonobos. This first experience would become a FOUNDATION for future FUNDAMENTAL experiences, with FIRM BASE likely related to being in bondage tied to a heavy cauldron (see details for these elements), particularly with the lower element as「night soil.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: base; foundation; basic; radical (chemistry)
Japanese EDRDG: fundamentals, radical (chemistry), counter for machines, foundation
Unihan extended: foundation, base

Used within names (nanori)
きい　･　とも

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.