榧 strengthen, adding splints; kaya tree, Japanese nutmeg yew 棑,匚,非,木,匪,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ヒ
HI

Kun-yomi

かや
ka　ya

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

棑

ハイ,ヒ,いかだ bound wood, raft, platform; lashed logs

　WOOD, WOODY STALK with PRICK SPLITTING APART, ERROR, FALSE, WRONG, FAULT, NOT NORMAL, REPROACH, CONDEMNING, BLAME, IRREGULAR MOVEMENT; OPPOSITE OF NORMAL POSITIONING, CONDITION OF POOR QUALITY
　

匚

ホウ,× contained restricted area

　ARRAYED in RIGHT-ANGLES
…or: ONE with NOOSE
　

非

ヒ,あら un-, not, error, false, wrong, fault, not normal; reproach, condemning, blame; irregular movement; opposite of normal positioning, condition of poor quality

　PRICK that is SEPARATING
…or: CHANGING STATUS with REPEATED BOBBING MOVEMENTS IN ALL DIRECTIONS, VERTICAL in MANY STEPS
　

木

ボク,モク,き,こ～ wood, woody stalk, stem, wooden, a woody, tree, implanted, simple, simpleton, coffin, encased death, unfeeling, numb

　TWISTING a TAUT HEAD
…or: SCREWING EMISSIONS
…or: HAND on TAUT ROD
　

匪

ヒ,あら,かたみ bandits, robbers, gangsters, wickedness

　CONTAINED, WALLED, RESTRICTED AREA or UNSEEN CONCEALED DEATH with ERROR, FALSE, WRONG, FAULT, NOT NORMAL, REPROACH, CONDEMNING, BLAME, IRREGULAR MOVEMENT, OPPOSITE POSITIONING
　

Meanings of elements

PLATFORM, LASHED LOGS, BOUND WOOD and CONTAINED, WALLED AND RESTRICTED AREA
…or: WOOD with IRREGULAR MOVEMENT, OPPOSITE POSITIONING, UNSEEN CONCEALED DEATH
…or: WOODY of WICKEDNESS in UNSEEN DEATH CONTAINER for PRICK FALLING APART, ERROR, WRONG, FAULT, NOT NORMAL, REPROACH, CONDEMNING, BLAME, IRREGULAR MOVEMENT, OPPOSITE OF NORMAL POSITIONING, CONDITION OF POOR QUALITY
…or: WOOD and BANDITS, ROBBERS, GANGSTERS

「Contain a broken woody」or「broken contained with wood」describes the need for STRENGTHENING, and doing so with a wood SPLINT for added support after beginning to fall apart as the result from「wickedness」and infection.
[Japanese glyph] internal element was likely used also due to its shape resembling the needles on branches of this yew tree, as this tree has yet to exhibit much wickedness in the wild…the wood of this tree is used to make igō boards, but the game can hardly be perceived as wicked either, although concealing one's strategy might be a bit sneaky. Lines drawn on the board may resemble the internal element, perhaps to some folks. The rules of an igō match allow for「irregular placement」of stones virtually anywhere on the board (every other placement during a ko fight being the only limited exception),「opposite positioning」(two players alternate placements), and「unseen death」(when a group of stones becomes surrounded, it dies and is removed from the game board).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Torreya nucifera
Japanese EDRDG: Japanese nutmeg, plum-yew
Unihan extended: type of yew

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.