塹 moat, trench, pit, cavity 車,圻,斤,斬,土,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ザン　･　セン
ZA　N　･　SE　N

Kun-yomi

ほり　･　あな
ho　ri　･　a　na

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

車

シャ,くるま rotation, wheel, cart, military vehicle, a well-oiled machine, greased axle; axel (rotation with human body), sequential screwing in orifice

　TURNING, SCREWING on both sides of a FILLED ORIFICE
…or: EXTENDED and ROTATING
…or: TWO in a MONKEY
…or: SCREWING a PLUGGING ORIFICE then SCREWING it again
…or: (three) sequential SCREWINGS in ORIFICE
…or: ARRAY of MONKEYS in LINE, with ROD, INDICATE EXTENT
　

圻

キ,ギン,さか border, boundary; area around a capital

　GROUND and SUBTLY CRUEL OR MALICIOUS, SPITEFUL, CAT-LIKE BEHAVIOR, PAWING AND SCRATCHING, HATCHET
…or: SOIL, FECES with PRICK-TEASING
　

斤

キン,× subtly cruel or malicious, prick-teasing, spiteful; cat-like behavior, pawing and scratching; hatchet, hand axe, hand held in shape of a hatchet in motion; unit of weight (approximately 500-600 grams)

　REPEATED HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY and STIFF ERECTION, QUICK MOVEMENT IN ANY DIRECTION and DOWN, ROD DOWN
　

斬

ザン,サン,セン,ゼン,き slow progress, decapitation, head loss, beheading with chariot wheels, serial axe murderer, an easy kill; sport of kings, killing time, bumpy ride

　ROTATION, WHEEL, CART, MILITARY VEHICLE with SUBTLY CRUEL OR MALICIOUS, PRICK-TEASING, SPITEFUL CAT-LIKE BEHAVIOR, PAWING AND SCRATCHING, HATCHET, HAND AXE, HAND HELD IN SHAPE OF A HATCHET IN MOTION
…or: SEQUENTIAL SCREWING IN ORIFICE and MALICIOUS PRICKING
　

土

ド,ト,つち soil, night soil (feces)

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

Meanings of elements

ROTATION, MILITARY VEHICLE and BORDER, BOUNDARY, AREA SURROUNDING THE CAPITAL
…or: SLOW PROGRESS, DECAPITATE, BEHEADING WITH CHARIOT WHEELS, SERIAL AXE MURDERER, AN EASY KILL, SPORT OF KINGS, KILLING TIME, BUMPY RIDE with SOIL, CLAY, EARTH, GROUND, NIGHT SOIL FECES, STOOL, MANURE FERTILIZER, OPIUM

Dikes and other levees to create moats often also had a road built on the top to allow military vehicles to patrol, and to cross when necessary. Moats filled with water and deep muck are used for defense of a castle during an attack by「slowing the progress with muck」of the enemy to create a「easy killing time, a time for killing.」Moats also require a long time to dig and fill,「slow progress and kill time with soil.」

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: moat around a city
Japanese EDRDG: moat, ditch
Unihan extended: moat, trench, pit, cavity

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.