煙 opium; smoke; feeling confused, awkward; fumes, smolder, smog, haze, spray; tobacco 火,灶,丅,罒,覀,西,土,垔,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

エン
E　N

Kun-yomi

けむ(る　･　けむり　･　けむ(い
ke　mu　ru　･　ke　mu　ri　･　ke　mu　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

火

カ,ひ,～び,ほ～ heated, in heat, burning, on fire, flaming

　IN PURSUIT of SERVICE PROVIDER, PERSON WHO MUST REMAIN SEATED
…or: EMISSIONS of MALE PERSON
…or: emphasis on TWO ERECTIONS JUXTAPOSED
…or: ERECTION TAUT and EMITTING
…or: ERECTIONS JUXTAPOSED with EMISSIONS
　

灶

ソウ,かまど,へっつい wood-burning (burning wood) kitchen stove, furnace, euphemism for anal sex

　BURNING ON FIRE FLAMING with CLAY
…or: PERSON TAUT ERECTION EMISSIONS FLAMING with FECES
　

丅

カ,ゲ,した,しも,もと,さ,くだ,お down, rod down

　DOWN
　

罒

モウ,ボウ,あみがしら,よこめ netting, weaving within spread legs, snare, claptrap

　THE GOODS as ARRAY OF ORIFICES
…or: SPREAD LEGS with WEAVING INSIDE
…or: CONTAINMENT SURROUNDING a SPURTING ROD
　

覀

× necessary; dripping from orifices; drops falling

　inverted ORGY, PILING ON IN LAYERS within CAVITY
…or: RODS double DOWN from/in ORIFICE(S)
…or: ARRAY of RODS in NETTING
　

西

セイ,サイ,ス,にし drying out, compress, dripping, drops falling, fermentation, west (as a compass point direction)

　LOFTY MOUTH
…or: UNSTABLE in ORIFICE
…or: STUPIDITY in a CONTAINER
…or: ARRAYED on ALL FOURS IN PEN
…or: ARRAY OF ITEMS, ROD with BENT LEG ORIFICE
…or: ROD and COPULATING within ORIFICE
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

　SCREWING with ROD
…or: RODS UP
…or: ROD within A FLESH SEAM
　

垔

シュ,ショウ,トウ,ズ,ふさ change a path; dirt dam, mound; restrain

　WESTERN SHIT
…or: DRYING OUT GROUND
…or: PRESSED SOIL
…or: DRIPPING with NIGHT SOIL
　

Meanings of elements

FURNACE with double DOWN and SNARE
…or: BURNING and NEEDED, COPULATING ALONE with MANURE FERTILIZER, OPIUM
…or: FIRE, BURNING from WESTERNERS that DAMS AND CAUSES COURSE CHANGE, NEED OF RESTRAINT

[Elements vary by font] refers to SMOKING OPIUM, FEELING CONFUSED AND AWKWARD. Later applied also to TOBACCO. The entire right element means「change the course of a flow of people or a river by building a wall of soil or dam and digging a new path.」Note that the simplified form of this same glyph in use now in China is「fire」with「in trouble」(烟).「Wine jar」with「ground, clay」element also is a direct reference to a hookah, a table pipe (a so-called「water pipe」) made from clay and often filled with wine or alcohol, used for cooling the smoke of「packed shit from the west」(opium) prior to inhalation and for allowing multiple users to access the smoke simultaneously. TOBACCO also coming from the West (being indigenous to the Americas), will also「change the course of your life」being extremely addictive due to the releases of dopamine triggered by the nicotine in the plant smoke.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist; vapour; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
Japanese EDRDG: smoke
Unihan extended: smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes

Used within names (nanori)
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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.