喝 shout, scream, yell until hoarse; scold, threaten, get drunk and rowdy 口,曷,

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カツ
KA　TSU

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口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

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

ORIFICE, MOUTH and MAKE DEMANDS, INTERROGATION, BEG FOR MERCY, ALL OF: WHY HOW WHEN WHAT WHERE, DISPLAY OF DEAD MEAT OR ROTTING CORPSE, HOLLERING LOUDLY

「Orifice, or, mouth」with「make demands, beg for mercy, beg for your life. All of: why how when what where.」Bottom-right element as「person wrapped in a noose」or「fallen, sitting person」(varies by font): SCREAM WILDLY UNTIL HOARSE OR DEAD, also meaning DRUNKEN SOD SCREAMING, or more to the point and quite literal, SCREAM YOUR HEAD OFF, that is, until you actually drop with the rope around your neck and your head pops off. Note the variation in the internal element using Japanese fonts reduces the stroke count, substituting「sitting person」(doomed for life) for「hanged person」(doomed for a short remainder of life). Reference to「orifice, mouth」「tonguing, say」「gangrenous rotting stench-emitting meat」to SCREAMING WILDLY likely needs no further explanation, but would be possible for someone DRUNK AND ROWDY, perhaps…anything is possible, then. May well also describe the mouth of the drunken person, too, and his or her rowdy behavior regardless of whether tonguing someone else's stinky meat, or not.
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External source definitions
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definition speculated from combining the elements, or, from usage in other glyphs

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.