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Gothic:
豊
豊

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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ホウ ・ ブ
HO U ・ BU
Kun-yomi
ゆた(か ・ とよ
yu ta ka ・ to yo

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Meanings of elements
CAVITY, OPEN CONTAINER, RECEPTACLE with BEAN-SHAPED SHAFT, CLITORIS, FEMALE GENITALIA
…or: CROOK, NOOK, NOT STRAIGHT, WARPED, MORAL ABERRATION, MORALLY ABHORRENT, BECOME HABITUATED, BENT, MELODY, SONG SINGING GIRL DIVA, DISASTER, PLEASURE with MINIATURE, FEMALE GENITALIA, THE BEAN, SACRIFICIAL VESSEL, TROPHY, PRIZE, CLITORIS
Formerly a BEAUTIFULLY DISPLAYED FLUID CONTAINMENT VESSEL, CEREMONIAL or DIVINE CONTAINER. Multiple「pricks in cavities」with「clitoral beans」「display, divine, religion」(see 豐, 禮). Today element of「warped, moral aberration, books and records」all as possible references to business and accounting data of a shaman, and, to the records maintained by a lord's eunuchs of concubinary exploits, with the ledgers and journals referred to as the official register of harem concubines and related records of activity with those beans, respectively…note as well that「singing bent beans」literally makes little sense as any of the given meanings, or, as a meaning in any other sense.
Some have argued that this glyph is the first reference to accountants as「bean counters」and it cannot be denied that the double-entry system appears as balanced entry of「tallies (丰) in adjoining cavities」on both sides within the glyph, and may be why this portion morphed into「set of books, records.」
Also likely is the modern interpretation of GREAT ABUNDANCE, PLENTY (of concubines, beans, fluid containment in sacrificial or religious vessels with dual cavities). Having a「great abundance」allowed a man to support a large harem. Sufficient wealth to afford a「great count of concubines on both sides.」
It may just be mere coincidence, but the top element is now comprised of「six orifices」all packed as one unit, and the Chinese Dragon Emperor kept a set of six principal concubines, and what better representation of PLENTY, ABUNDANCE, WEALTH, RICH, LOADED could there have been other than the Chinese Dragon Emperor as a「moral aberration atop clitorises」
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Some scholars say the glyph depicts one-legged buckets literally filled with legumes, suggesting that chick peas represent bounty and vast wealth…yet other glyphs depict being filled with beans or grain as pox pustules or infection drainage caused by sexually transmitted disease (see 痘 and 菌 as examples).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: ceremonial vessel; variant of 禮|礼; variant of 豐|丰
Japanese EDRDG: bountiful, excellent, rich
Unihan extended: abundant, lush, bountiful, plenty

Used within names (nanori)
て ・ で ・ と ・ ひろし ・ ふう ・ ぶん ・ ほ ・ ゆたか

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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