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KA KU ・ KO U
hi ro ga ru ・ hi ro ge ru ・ hi ro me ru
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To SPREAD something「wide」to WIDEN:「both hands in use with talent to accomplish a task」during「twenty or so, numerous」occurrences in a「cavern of flashes, cavern of flickering dull yellow light, pus, and porn.」Numerous「flashes」in a wide and spacious「cavern」referring to sexual encounters. The witch-doctor shaman's service providers worked within speaking distance of each other, in those days moving from client to client, unknowingly carrying bacteria on their instruments and their unwashed hands.
Up until a century ago or so in many hospital maternity wards around the world,「talented and skilled hands widened, spread illness」just as this glyph depicts: folks living in a city mostly were the ones using hospitals for births. Women in labor were lined in beds awaiting full dilation of the cervix prior to delivery of the infant, when a nurse「with skilled hands」would traverse the line inserting her finger(s) into the vagina of each woman in order to feel how large the cervix had dilated. After many hours of this and when fully dilated, a woman would be brought into the delivery area. Needless to say, if a single expectant mother among that day's group had a case of syphilis and/or gonorrhea (estimated quite conservatively to have been one woman in every seven, and a common occurrence today also: one in four teenage females have an STD), then every expectant mother down the line would be given a dose by the nurse's feeling fingers. Traversing the line in both directions over the course of a few hours made certain that everyone went home with more than just a new baby. Rural folks employed do-it-yerself [sic] techniques, or the pregnant woman's mother or other relative, or a midwife who worked one-on-one and was much less likely to spread an infection. More often than not the hapless husband was later blamed since a man who claimed to be loyal to his wife and to have nonetheless contracted gonorrhea or syphilis during marriage was generally not believed:「Training in obstetrics was rudimentary at best and was not compulsory for doctors until much later. In fact doctors were often the unwitting sources of infection for women in childbed, transmitting contagion from previous patients. Hospitals were places of last resort, sought only by the very poor and the desperate. The death rates in hospitals were known to be extremely high.」
[ https://adelaidia.sa.gov.au/subjects/19th-century-childbirth 2014-09-02 ]
「The rise of maternity wards in hospitals meant that many women gave birth within shouting distance of each other. Doctors, in those days before germ theory, went from patient to patient, unknowingly carrying the bacteria on their instruments and their unwashed hands.」
[ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/50513/historical-horror-childbirth 2023-05-18 ] how much more so among the prostitutes?
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: enlarge
Unihan extended: expand, enlarge, stretch
EDRDG: broaden; extend; expand; enlarge
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?
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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.
Primal elements
Chinese usage: 26 entries
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- Strokes: 18
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