揭 remove a lid or covering, expose, reveal, unmask, hoist, display, publish, advertise; post a sign 扣,一,匃,扌,曷,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケイ　･　ケツ
KE　I　･　KE　TSU

Kun-yomi

かかげる
ka　ka　ge　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

扣

コウ,たた,ひか secure by restraint, to button, fasten, confiscate, to be preparing for, to be waiting for, knock and smash, trumping a pussy, hold in reserve or as a backup system of methods and principles used in a particular discipline, exercising restraint from excessive use

　TALENTED USING BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK with an ORIFICE
　

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
　

匃

カツ,カチ,カイ,こう,あた begging, to beg, to plead for, to give what is deserving; odor, stench, gangrene; gibbetting

　TAUT ERECTION DIRECTLY WRAPPED SLIDING HEAD in NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
…or: WRAP AROUND HEAD AND NECK of PERSON HANGED
　

扌

シュ,× talented, using both of one's hands to accomplish a task

　TALENT
…or: USING BOTH HANDS
…or: ARRAY of STREAMS with SLIDING HEAD IN
　

曷

カツ,なんぞ,いつ,いずくんぞ,なに make demands, interrogation, beg for mercy; hollering loudly, all of: why how when what where; display of dead meat or rotting corpse

　TONGUING MOUTH with BEGGING FOR
…or: SPEAK, SAY, HAVING A REASON TO DO SOMETHING, PRETENDING, A PRETEXT, EXCUSE GIVEN TO HIDE THE TRUE REASON FOR SOMETHING with GIVE WHAT IS DESERVING
…or: TONGUE IN MOUTH with ODOR, GIBBETING
…or: ROD in ORIFICE with BEGGING, TO BEG
　

Meanings of elements

SECURE BY RESTRAINT, BE PREPARING FOR, BE WAITING FOR, KNOCK AND SMASH, TRUMPING A PUSSY with ARRAY OF ITEMS, INDICATES EXTENT with BEGGING, GIVE WHAT IS DESERVING, ODOR, STENCH, GANGRENE, GIBBETTING
…or: TALENTED USING BOTH OF ONE'S HANDS TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK and MAKE DEMANDS, INTERROGATION, BEG FOR MERCY HOLLERING LOUDLY, WHY HOW WHEN WHAT WHERE, DISPLAY OF DEAD MEAT OR ROTTING CORPSE

「Talented use of hands」to PUBLISH or POST, and announce information about「why how when what where」or「holler loudly about something」such as an ADVERTISEMENT.
「Talented hands on dead and rotting meat」(of a sitting person's no-longer-integrated feet, see 掲) to REMOVE THE COVER of binding cloths, EXPOSE THE INSIDE, UNMASK and HOIST a foot up for use. In China, no-longer-integrated and tightly bound feet often were gangrenous.
Meanings of HOIST or RAISE A DEAD WEIGHT, and EXPOSE, REVEAL, UNMASK also related to the practice of「gibbetting」a criminal: gibbetting was the practice of allowing hanged naked bodies to remain in plain sight as long as possible as the corpse rots, and the rotting flesh of a not-still-living human also causes a horrific stench and performed as a deterrent ADVERTISING to others who might see or smell the corpse.「Public execution…gibbeting refers to the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of executed criminals were [hanged] on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. In earlier times…live gibbeting also took place, in which the condemned was placed alive in a metal cage and left to die of thirst. …It was most often used for traitors, murderers, highwaymen, pirates, and sheep stealers and was intended to discourage others from committing similar offences. …In some cases, the bodies would be left until their clothes rotted or even until the bodies were almost completely decomposed…. So that the public display might be prolonged, bodies were sometimes coated in tar and/or bound in chains. Sometimes, body-shaped iron cages were used to contain the decomposing corpses.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbeting 2013-01-13, emphasis ours, noting that stealing and tupping another man's ewe was akin to the most heinous of crimes ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to take the lid off; to expose; to unmask
Japanese EDRDG: raise, lift up, surname
Unihan extended: raise, lift up

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.