稲 growing rice plants with stalks; a rice paddy 禾,ー,ノ,⺍,旧,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

トウ　･　テ
TO　U　･　TE

Kun-yomi

いね　･　いな～
i　ne　･　i　na～

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

禾

カ,いね grainy, grain-like, encrusted, cereal grains, grain plants standing in a field unharvested, seeds on stalk tip, dried emissions, crusty gonorrhea gleet

　ROD DYING YOUNG
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD of WOODY
…or: THOUSAND TIMES with EMISSIONS DOWN
…or: PERSON with ARRAY OF ROD EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD and FILLED WITH SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING DAMMED HEAD and BOUGIE NEEDLE EMISSIONS
　

ー

× HTML entity: ー repeated, bobbing

　REPEATED BOBBING
　

ノ

× HTML entity: ノ head, sliding down, declining, dammed flow

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

⺍

× HTML entity: ⺍ dazzle, flashes; fiery, light rays, sparkle, flames; loose stuff spewing

　emphasis on EMISSIONS
　

旧

キュウ,ふる,もと past, former, a long time ago, prior to the present; not new, worn and used; antiquated, outmoded, obsolete

　UPRIGHT DAYS
…or: SPEAKING OF when ROD UPRIGHT, STRAIGHT
…or: ROD with TONGUING MOUTH
　

Meanings of elements

GRAIN PLANTS STANDING IN A FIELD, SEEDS ON STALK TIP and REPEATED BOWED HEAD BOBBING UP AND DOWN CONTINUOUSLY with LOOSE STUFF SPEWING and AT A VERY YOUNG AGE, DAY OF STANDING VERTICALLY

Chinese formerly used「seeds on shaft tip, grains」with either「meat」or「hand pushing, grasping」「trap, plugging something deeply through many layers (of mud in this case), cavity with two sets of lips」(稻) that meant IMPLANTING SEEDS. Japanese elements are「grain that repeatedly dazzles from long ago」as sprouted seed grains of rice from last year that have been planted and have become GROWING PLANTS that will be or have been transplanted into the mud of a RICE PADDY to produce rice grain, a practice followed for centuries if not millennia. This is the original glyph meaning RICE PADDY.
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese variant of 稻; the rice plant
Japanese EDRDG: rice plant
Unihan extended: rice growing in field, rice plant

Used within names (nanori)
いの　･　しね　･　せ　･　な

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.