Login
Welcome! Introduction
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.
E N
shi o
Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]
Cattle given unlimited access to large salt licks have been known to ingest quantities sufficient to kill the animals, likely by causing a heart attack due to sodium, potassium or other ion imbalances. The same elements also depict「warning to maintain some distance from brain fluid in dish or find yourself prone.」Brain fluid is very salty, since sodium ions are essential to enable electrical impulses to pass between synapses within the brain…but too much salty juice also can cause a heart attack, and cave folks probably found out the hard way, in addition to contracting kuru:
「Kuru is found among people…who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people…. Kuru causes brain and nervous system changes similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Similar diseases appear in cows as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also called mad cow disease. The main risk factor for kuru is eating human brain tissue, which can contain the infectious particles. …Death usually occurs within 1 year after the first sign of symptoms.」
[ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002355/ 2012-12-23 ]
Concubines used salts in the deep skin slits of their bound feet to accomplish two things at once: dry the skin, and disinfect any wounds or straggling bacteria left by clients.
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: salt
Unihan extended: (same as 塩) salt
EDRDG: salt
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.
Primal elements
Chinese usage: 82 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 21 entries
- Glyph.13364
- Strokes: 25 ～ 24
- old_forms
Agree? Disagree? Express your opinion by posting a comment.
This publication has included material from the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
This publication has included material from the JMdict (EDICT, etc.) dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.
This publication has included material from the Unicode Character Database. Copyright © 1991-2016 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. Distributed under these Terms of Use.
