権 authority, power; rights; privilege; temporary 椎,木,ノ,干,𠂉,ナ,隹,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ケン　･　ゴン
KE　N　･　GO　N

Kun-yomi

おもり　･　かり　･　はか(る
o　mo　ri　･　ka　ri　･　ha　ka　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

椎

ツイ,スイ,つち,う shii tree, beech; mallet; vertebrae, spine

　WOOD, TREE with MATING DISPLAY
…or: WOODY with PERSON PALMING PRICK
　

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
　

ノ

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

　HEAD SLIDING DOWN
　

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
　

𠂉

× HTML entity: 𠂉 prostrated, prone, supine, laid out flat

　THE HEAD with BOUGIE INSERTED
…or: HEAD and HORIZONTAL
　

ナ

× HTML entity: ナ hand (as an element); use of one's hand

　ROD with SLIDING HEAD
…or: ERECT ROD
　

隹

サイ,スイ,とり primate mating stance, male human or bird in courting stance, flaunting one's best point, narcissism, loving oneself in full plumage display or while displaying a plume, public display of affection for one's own bird or pecker

　PERSON PALMING ROD PRICK
…or: CORE EMPHASIS on FLESH SEAM SKILL
…or: HEAD SLIDING on UPRIGHT ROD with PALMING CONTROL of PRICK
…or: EMPHASIS on KERNEL OF HUMAN NATURE and TALENTED HANDS USED TO ACCOMPLISH A TASK
　

Meanings of elements

MALLET-like HEAD OF THRUSTING PENIS
…or: WOOD and HEAD OF PENIS DOWNWARD THRUSTING in COURTSHIP DISPLAY
…or: TREE and HERON
…or: WOODIES with HIGH AMBITIONS, HEAD-THRUSTING MATING DISPLAY

[Japanese variant] as「woody head downward penile thrusting in a courtship display」the meanings of AUTHORITY, POWER, RIGHTS and PRIVILEGE must be apparent as being those of the dominant male who battled and won for those RIGHTS, else he would not be the one thrusting penis…note that the simplified Chinese for this glyph today employs「wood with crotch」(权).
There is seemingly little relevance to a「tree」a heron as「bird with head thrusting downward to one side」and authority, rights and privileges, unless it is the heron's habit of spontaneously defecating when disturbed, an action that a heron performs regularly enough to be considered as its RIGHT and PRIVILEGE to do so. Being large and well-adorned, as are royal persons possessing AUTHORITY, POWER, RIGHTS and PRIVILEGE, crested herons seemingly always have the right to roost in the top of any tree and to defecate upon all those below, naturally, as birds do.
Perhaps tree branches with roosting and nesting sites covered with feces blasted from「scared shitless」heron cloacas reminded the sages of the AUTHORITY, POWER, RIGHTS and PRIVILEGE of the nobility (no one else had any power, rights, authority, or privileges) who could defecate on anyone lower in social status at any time they had such a fancy, born to「roost, and defecate where they roost」all day, often sitting on seats with a hole cut to allow for defecating and/ or urinating at any moment while feasting, not unlike herons…
In Chinese, meaning TEMPORARY as well, suggesting that inevitably the position at the top of the heap defecating on all those below will one day be no more, or, that government and royalty 'upper class' can remove any rights from a 'lower class' with impunity and no notice whatsoever.
Perhaps related to 'monopoly, tolls' (榷) as another inherent right of kings and royalty,「woodies spread wide like a crane in courtship display」to control all.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese variant of 權|权, authority; power; right
Japanese EDRDG: authority, power, rights
Unihan extended: power, right, authority

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.