稀 sparse, diluted, watery, scarce, rare, not common, scant, seldom 禾,希,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

キ　･　ケ
KI　･　KE

Kun-yomi

まれ　･　まばら
ma　re　･　ma　ba　ra

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禾

カ,いね grainy, grain-like, encrusted, cereal grains, grain plants standing in a field unharvested, seeds on stalk tip, dried emissions, crusty gonorrhea gleet

　ROD DYING YOUNG
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD of WOODY
…or: THOUSAND TIMES with EMISSIONS DOWN
…or: PERSON with ARRAY OF ROD EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD and FILLED WITH SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD and BOUGIE NEEDLE EMISSIONS
　

希

キ,ケ,まれ to beg, never having enough of, to beseech, to implore, to entreat, hope for, yearn, I pray in earnest that…, admire, rarefy, phenomenal, Greek

　WEAVING, SHUTTLING BACK-AND-FORTH MOTION of HAND in LOINCLOTH, on ROD VERTICAL in SPREAD LEGS, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION
…or: HEAD WHACKED APLENTY FROTTAGE DOCKING, MUTUALLY STIMULATING ACTIVITY and LOINCLOTH
…or: WHACKING MOTIONS, SUBDUE GET CONTROL, PETTING MOTIONS with SOFT SPOT, WEAVE IN AND OUT, HOLE IN BONE with NAPPY, ASSUME A FIXED POSITION, ANNOUNCE, MAKE KNOWN
…or: SHUTTLING HEAD SLIDING with ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS
　

Meanings of elements

GONORRHEA with HOPE
…or: REPEATED BOBBING HEAD SEEDS ON STALK TIP of WOODY, SCREWING EMISSIONS with SHUTTLING BACK-AND-FORTH MOTION of HAND in LOINCLOTH on ROD VERTICAL in SPREAD LEGS, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION

Some have suggested perhaps「grain plants scant and desired」means SPARSE and WATERY since a large portion of the surface of the rice paddy is visible for some unstated reason, and not filled with green rice shafts that would normally block viewing any water other than at the edges. More likely though, DILUTED may be closely related to the meaning of「seeds at tip of stalk are scant and still desired, never enough to satisfy the demand」and have become SPARSE and WATERY due to many ejaculations occurring within a brief period…not having much to do with grain plants, but perhaps something to do with RARE, red and raw meat. SCANT means「barely sufficient, falling short of a specific measure, inadequately supplied.」…NEVER ENOUGH TO SATISFY THE DEMAND [ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/scant ]
A case of「gonorrhea with hope」during an age without antibiotics was also UNCOMMON, RARE, SCARCE, difficult to locate.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: rare; uncommon; watery; sparse
Japanese EDRDG: rare, phenomenal, dilute (acid)
Unihan extended: rare, unusual, scarce; sparse

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.

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