灰 ash, discouraged, dejected, ashen, gray, to incinerate 丶,丿,乀,人,丷,匕,厂,ナ,火,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カイ
KA　I

Kun-yomi

はい
ha　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

丿

ヘツ,えい,よう straight up erect, quick jerking movement, stretched taut

　ERECT, FLING
　

乀

フツ,ブチ,ま stretched taut; leashed under control of another; the other side (of something)

　STRETCHED TAUT
　

人

ジン,ニン,ひと,～り,～と person, a man, male adult

　HEAD or ERECT with TAUT, STRETCHED
　

丷

× emit upward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
　

匕

ヒ,さじ must remain sitting most of the time, device for scooping fluids, used for piercing or stabbing into

　REPEATED, BOBBING HEAD of PENIS
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL merged with PENIS
　

厂

カン,かりがね hand, cliff, curtain

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

ナ

× HTML entity: ナ hand (as an element); use of one's hand

　ROD with SLIDING HEAD
…or: ERECT ROD
　

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
　

Meanings of elements

CLIFF or HAND and HEATED, IN HEAT BURNING ON FIRE FLAMING
…or: ROD ERECT IN HEAT

Formerly,「hand」with「fire」(as seen in some fonts) depicting ASHES, or「fire」that is cool enough to handle「in hand.」Some suggest that the「hand」element as a variant depicts the hand being pulling away out of fear that the ashes are still hot enough to cause injury, or in fact are still hot. Modern fonts use「cliff, hand」and a fire built under a cliff has a better chance of burning completely to ASH. Or, ASHES in fact remain for a while longer from a fire built under a「cliff overhang」because the rain and wind have less of a chance to wash and blow the ASH away.
On the other hand, a「flaming erection in heat pursuing a service provider (匕 so popular in dynastic China)」with a「hand」or「emissions of person with rod erect」describes the time subsequent to flaming as things are cooling.
Or: DEJECTED, DISCOURAGED relates to the modern term「flameout」or one's flame is now out, caused by the extinction of the flame in the combustion chamber.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected
Japanese EDRDG: ashes, puckery juice, cremate
Unihan extended: ashes; dust; lime, mortar

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.