敢 audacity, daring, to dare, to venture into, to challenge, tragic, tragedy, to assume risk, to expose oneself to danger 攻,工,ユ,斗,丅,耳,攵,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カン
KA　N

Kun-yomi

あ(えて　･　あ(えない　･　あ(えず
a　e　te　･　a　e　na　i　･　a　e　zu

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

攻

コウ,せ to go on the offensive by striking, attacking, assaulting; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; to assail

　CLOSED FLESH SEAM or PLANNING AND SKILL with INCITE ACTION, PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING
　

工

コウ,ク,グ,× closed seam of flesh; planning and skill necessary to perform a job, skilled worker with various woods; a trade

　CLOSED ORIFICE
…or: VERTICAL within TWO MODES, CHANGING STATE
…or: UPPER joining LOWER
　

ユ

× HTML entity: ユ pulled out of the normal shape

　ROLLED, ROLLING, BEING ROLLED, SECOND POSITION, 2ND IN A SEQUENCE and LATERAL MOTION
…or: EXTREME TENSION, STRESS WITH PAIN AND GASPS, TAUT, TIGHT, SPRING-LIKE ACTION and INDICATES THE WIDTH OR EXTENT OF ANOTHER ELEMENT, AN ARRAY OF ITEMS
　

斗

ト,トウ,× not unified internally; in need of balancing; inharmonious positions, to fight, struggle with adversaries; bone mashing, disconnected bone fragments

　CONGEAL, DRIPPING and REPEATEDLY with VERTICAL MOTION, ROD
…or: TWO with TOP-TO-BOTTOM and NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED HORIZONTAL or REPEATEDLY
　

丅

カ,ゲ,した,しも,もと,さ,くだ,お down, rod down

　DOWN
　

耳

ジ,みみ hearing, listening, adjust balance and positioning, adjust internal pressure, ear; soldier, clan flag, that is all, end of message

　ARRAY of VERTICAL MOTION with ADJUST POSITION AND BALANCE in ANY DIRECTION, DISCONNECTED BONE FRAGMENTS, INTERNAL DIVISIONS
　

攵

ホク,× goad, coerce, force, incite action, prostrate and stroking, whacking

　SUPINE with PETTING CROSSING MOTION
…or: WHACKED and PROSTRATED
　

Meanings of elements

GO ON THE OFFENSIVE BY STRIKING, ATTACKING, ASSAULTING, DOMINANT PARTNER OF A HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP, TO ASSAIL with NOT UNIFIED INTERNALLY, IN NEED OF BALANCING, INHARMONIOUS POSITIONS, TO FIGHT, STRUGGLE WITH ADVERSARIES, DISCONNECTED BONE FRAGMENTS
…or: ROD DOWN or CLOSED SEAM OF SKIN, CRAFT AND SKILL NECESSARY TO PERFORM A JOB, PLANNING, TRADING ONE THING FOR ANOTHER with LISTENING, ADJUST BALANCE AND POSITIONING, ADJUST INTERNAL PRESSURE, EAR, SOLDIER, CLAN FLAG with COERCE, FORCE, INCITE ACTION, PROSTRATE AND STROKING, WHACKING
…or: EARS DOWN or PULLED BACK or PINCHED TOGETHER with INCITE, WHACKING
…or: FLESH SEAM and ROD with BATTLE and ENTICEMENT, COERCION

「Skill and planning of a foot soldier, incited, prostrate and whacking」an enemy (perhaps) as AUDACITY, DARING, to CHALLENGE, TRAGIC, but not in a good sense.「Soldier with seam of flesh, incite」as TO VENTURE, to TAKE A RISK, to EXPOSE ONESELF TO DANGER, proceeding despite possible risks, to boldly take the plunge into battle, or, into a services-providing 'comfort woman' or a local gold-digger:「flesh seam(s) merging with internal pressure and forced coercion.」
　「Ears down, or, pulled to the side (varies by font) and incited」: some suggest this refers to pinning back an animal's ears, such as an angry dog (see 玁) or horse, and then whacking it, an act that might be daring and a challenge, and also very stupid. Many species of animals communicate anger and CHALLENGES by「pulling back the ears when incited」often accompanied by growling.
　As「seam created by pinching two pieces of flesh together」and in this glyph may be referring to grabbing and pinching together both「ears」with「whacking, coercion, forced to submit.」Chinese version depicts the top-left element rather more like「pulling to one side」(ユ) with「battle among concubines, service providers」(斗), and in other fonts「head and neck, in high tension with ears.」…all these elements in combination with「ears, adjusting balance and positioning」depict fundamentally the same action…a battle, a CHALLENGE among rivals or between antagonists. Meaning TRAGIC, AUDACITY and DARING, to CHALLENGE, but not in a good sense.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
Japanese: dare, venture, take upon oneself, challenge, presume, need to, go as far as, definitely
Unihan extended: to dare, venture; bold, brave
EDRDG: daring; brave; bold; sad; tragic; pitiful

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.