芋 yam, tuber, potato, yokel, bumpkin, dufus, rural and uncultured, shaft buried in soil, fundamentally affectionate 芉,亅,干,艹,二,于,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

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Kun-yomi

いも
i　mo

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芉

カイ,カン,はとむぎ spilled seeds, roundish white seeds, coix seed, tear grass, pearl barley

　EMERGING SHAFTS, STALKS, STEMS with THRUSTING DOWNWARD TO FUCK, BECOME DRAINED OF FLUIDS, DEFENSIVE COUNTERMEASURES, MAIN TRUNK OR SHAFT
　

亅

ケツ,かぎ downward flowing fluid stream; barbed

　STREAM
　

干

カン,ほ,～ぼ,ひ thrusting downward, to fuck, become drained of fluids, ebb; defensive; main trunk or shaft

　INVERTED PENIS, ROD DOWN
…or: ARRAY of SCREWING
　

艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり fucking, emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

二

ニ,ジ,ふた,ふたたび two; a change of physical state

　ONE (twice)
　

于

ウ,ク,ここに,ああ,おいて,より,を in (the clouds, heaven, outer space); among (the clouds, the gods and divinity); such as; moment of ejaculation; under the Coolidge Effect of a dopamine high

　ARRAY of RODS, MALES BLASTING DISCHARGES
…or: DOWNWARD THRUSTING with STREAM
　

Meanings of elements

SPILLED SEEDS with STREAMING
…or: PLANT and IN AMONG HIGHS
…or: EMERGING SHAFTS with DRAINED STREAMS

Top element refers to any sort of「vegetation, plant life, emerging shafts.」POTATOES are grown in「drained, dry」sandy soil, and the taters are found「in among」the taproots of the plant. Chinese use POTATO as a euphemism for an uneducated country yokel, and to refer to burying one's root into night soil via the anus of some animal, including the human kind. Digging taters requires a tool shaped much like this glyph, and uses a steady「stream of downward thrusting motions」to break up the surrounding soil, loosening the potatoes.
POTATOES are a member of the Nightshade family, and therefore contain nicotine, which when ingested (or, more popularly today being inhaled or chewed from tobacco leaves) releases the best friend your brain ever had…dopamine (albeit from a potato in only small amounts…watch out for overdosing on eggplant as well).「Plant with stream released from downward thrusting motions of penis」recalls that sexual activity in particular is a human's most efficient source of a naturally occurring dopamine release into the bloodstream…the ancient sages knew this, too. See the related glyph (藷) for other causes of dopamine release.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: taro; Colocasia antiquorum; Colocasia esculenta
Japanese EDRDG: potato
Unihan extended: taro

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.