鈷 cobalt; household iron cobaltum, ingesting feces (for nutrition) 針,口,釦,十,金,土,凵,古,

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針

シン,はり medical needle, bougie, inject into, malice, insertion, pin, pointer, needle, stinger, sewing needle

　METAL NEEDLE
…or: PERSON with PENIS DOWNWARD THRUSTING SPURTS with SCREWING
　

口

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

　ORIFICE
　

釦

コウ,ク,ぼたん easy and often penetration, hooking up together, button, buckle, clasp, engrave

　DIGGING, METAL, PERSON THRUSTING INTO with ORIFICE
　

十

ジュウ,ジッ,ジュッ,とお filled completely, perfectly full; screwing, rotating, twisting, turning; crossed shape; closing a hole or other opening, plugged, blocked; needle; ten

　VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM and SIDE TO SIDE
　

金

キン,コン,ゴン,かね,かな～,～がね metallic, digging, gold, person thrusting downward, valuables, testicles, source of wealth

　HAVING MORE THAN NEEDED, EXCESSIVE, TOO MUCH TO USE, SURPLUS, REMAINING, EXTRA RELAXED, I (USED BY EMPEROR ONLY) on ROD, INDICATES EXTENT
…or: PERSON, TAUT ERECTION with THRUSTING DOWNWARD FUCK, BECOME DRAINED OF FLUIDS, EBB, MAIN TRUNK SHAFT with SPURTING STANCE, PERCOLATING GUSHING HOT FLUIDS FROM HOLLOW SHAFT, ROD with EMISSIONS
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

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

凵

カン,× cavity, open container, receptacle, bin

　THREE-SIDED and OPEN
　

古

コ,ふる,ふる～,～ふる ancient, old, outmoded, older method or style, used; enlarged prostate gland

　PENIS in CAVITY
…or: SCREWING with ORIFICE
　

Meanings of elements

MEDICAL INJECTION, MALICE with ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY
…or: EASY AND OFTEN, HOOKING UP TOGETHER, CLASP, ENGRAVE with FILLED, SCREWING, TWISTING, PLUGGED, NEEDLE
…or: METALLIC and ANCIENT, OLD
…or: GOLD DIGGING with FECAL CAVITY

Without COBALT, all animals die. Lack of cobalt in the diet causes vitamin B12 deficiency called「hypocobalaminemia.」One major symptom of this condition is deterioration of the nervous system and symptoms of dementia, an「old person」problem. Cobalt is not the first metal discovered by human beings, but it is the first metal discovered by a human being who is known by name…metals discovered earlier, such as iron, gold, copper and a few others, were isolated prior to the Bronze Age with no written history remaining today. In that sense, perhaps cobalt is an「old metal」used to color ceramics blue for a long time.
「Cobalt is essential to all animals. It is a key constituent of cobalamin, also known as vitamin B12, which is the primary biological reservoir of cobalt as an 'ultratrace' element. Bacteria in the guts of ruminant animals convert cobalt salts into vitamin B12, a compound which can only be produced by bacteria or archaea. The minimum presence of cobalt in soils therefore markedly improves the health of grazing animals…. Non-ruminant herbivores produce vitamin B12 from bacteria in their colons which again make the vitamin from simple cobalt salts. However the vitamin cannot be absorbed from the colon, and thus non-ruminants must ingest feces to obtain the nutrient. Animals that do not follow these methods of getting vitamin B12 from their own gastrointestinal bacteria or that of other animals, must obtain the vitamin pre-made in other animal products in their diet, and they cannot benefit from ingesting simple cobalt salts.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt 2013-09-03 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: cobalt (chemistry)
Japanese EDRDG: cobalt
Unihan extended: cobalt; household iron cobaltum

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.