槐 pagoda tree, locust tree 木,鬼,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

カイ
KA　I

Kun-yomi

えんじゅ
e　n　ju

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

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
　

鬼

キ,おに,おに～ sly, crafty, demon, devil, ogre, bitchy hag, spirit of any deceased person (either good or evil), ghost, old woman with no money

　emphasis on deepest part of PLUGGED ORIFICE with SELF IN COPULATION
…or: PLUGGING MUCK ORIFICE WETLAND with emphasis and BENT LEG COPULATING with STENCH, LOOSE AND DRIPPING
　

Meanings of elements

TREE and SPIRIT OF A DECEASED PERSON, GHOST, DEMON, DEVIL, OGRE
…or: WOOD for a BITCHY HAG

So named with these elements perhaps because naturally few other species of trees will grow nearby a PAGODA TREE. Perhaps unfairly, but demons, ogres, bitchy hags, and the spirits of dead folk are generally avoided for the same reasons.「Woody demon」or「ogre woody」as a LOCUST TREE, having black skin (bark), extremely hard slow-burning wood with high heat, edible pendulous whitish intensely fragrant flowers in long racemes that appear to drip from its gnarly branches, resistant to moisture, rot,…and salt (fecal matter contains a fair amount of salt).

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica); Japanese pagoda tree
Japanese: Japanese pagoda tree
Unihan extended: locust tree
EDRDG: type of Japanese pagoda tree

Used within names (nanori)
えんじ

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.