源 root, origin, source, spring headwaters, head 汩,泊,厂,小,氵,原,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ゲン
GE　N

Kun-yomi

みなもと
mi　na　mo　to

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

汩

コツ,イツ,ベキ,しず to sink or drown, to be suffocated with fluids

　FLUID and TONGUE SHOWN IN MOUTH
　

泊

ハク,と anchorage, ride at anchor, overnight stay, short stay, one night docked, held in a fixed and unmovable position, tied down to prevent motion

　THIS IS THE SPOT above SUNK, DROWN
…or: FLUIDITY that is WHITE, EMPTY, BLANK
…or: CONSPICUOUS with FLUID
　

厂

カン,かりがね hand, cliff, curtain

　STRAIGHT UP and LATERAL
…or: ARRAY of ERECTIONS
…or: ROD ERECT
　

小

ショウ,ちい,こ～,お～,さ～ relatively small condition; small stream of emissions; young, a minor; human mound; deeply felt

　STREAM of EMISSIONS
　

氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

　emphasis on MANY DRIPS, DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS
…or: MANY TIMES DROPS
　

原

ゲン,はら origin, prime, primal, primitive, raw, the cause, source, former; grammatical plural form indicator for a class of human beings; prairie, a plain

　HAND and MANNER IN WHICH ONE CARRIES OR CONDUCTS ONESELF with STREAM OF FLUID
…or: ERECTION ROD with INSPECTION of STREAM OF EMISSIONS
…or: ERECT ROD with STARING IN A STUPOR, CONSPICUOUS WHITE EMISSIONS STREAMING
…or: ERECTION ARRAYED with OPEN TONGUING MOUTH of YOUNG, A MINOR, SMALL, HUMAN MOUND OF MONS VENUS, MONS PUBIS, DEEPLY FELT, DEEP FEELING, DIFFICULT TO FORGET
　

Meanings of elements

HAND in SUFFOCATED WITH FLUIDS and DEEPLY FELT EMISSION STREAM
…or: ERECTION ARRAYED in SHORT STAY, DOCKED, HELD IN POSITION on MONS VENUS, MONS PUBIS, MONS VENERIS
…or: FLUIDS and ORIGIN, PRIME, PRIMAL, PRIMITIVE, RAW, THE CAUSE, SOURCE, GRAMMATICAL PLURAL FORM INDICATOR, PRAIRIE
…or: FLUID with HAND on WHITE, CONSPICUOUS SMALL STREAM OF EMISSIONS

「Flowing fluid」added to「small stream of white, bubbly fluid flowing from a cliff slope, hand, or array of erections」as The Source. Locating the source of a spring, rather than simply using the water flowing in it anywhere is very important if the water is used for human consumption rather than irrigation: water from bedrock is naturally filtered and generally clean, mostly free of any bacteria that washes into a stream further down a slope from animal feces in rainwater, and human pollution today. Also meaning FOUNTAINHEAD, and which heads are equipped with a fountain? depicting a source of fluid from rocks that has spurted onto an area, such as the lower torso around the umbilicus or between pubic bone.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: root; source; origin
Japanese EDRDG: source, origin
Unihan extended: spring; source, head

Used within names (nanori)
はら　･　みな　･　もと

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.