艾 redress, reap, mow, cut off; artemisia: mugwort, wormwood, sagebrush and hundreds of other related bitter herbs 艹,乂,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カイ　･　ゲイ
KA　I　･　GE　I

Kun-yomi

もぐさ　･　よもぎ　･　おさ(める　･　か(る
mo　gu　sa　･　yo　mo　gi　･　o　sa　me　ru　･　ka　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり fucking, emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

乂

ガイ,カイ,ゲ,おさ,か subdue, get control of, to govern; whacking motion, give a whipping; crossed

　ONE SIDE THEN THE OTHER
…or: SLIDING DOWN and STRETCHED TAUT
…or: HEAD LEASHED
　

Meanings of elements

EMERGING STALKS and SUBDUE

To correct a wrong: REDRESS. To REAP seeds by「whacking emerging shafts.」「Plants that whack」are quite bitter herbs.「Plants that subdue」are medicinal herbs. A general reference to a genus of plants that act medicinally as a purgative and to control bacteria blooms in the large intestine, particularly E. coli staphylococcus strains, yeasts such as Candida albicans, and mold growth, or colony growth elsewhere when applied topically. In English, a family of herbs named after the goddess Artemis, the「protector of young girls, childbirth, and virginity」including mugwort, wormwood, and sagebrush containing natural terpenoids, useful for killing bacteria and treating gonorrhea, among other infections, by placing the herbs in a groin poultice.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to mow; to cut; to reap; to redress; Chinese mugwort or wormwood; to stop or cut short; phonetic "ai" or "i"; abbr. for 艾滋病 , AIDS
Japanese EDRDG: moxa, sagebrush, wormwood, mugwort
Unihan extended: artemisia, mugwort; translit.

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.