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JU U ・ JI [stop] ・ JU [stop]
to o ・ to
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Indicates changing the position or the orientation of something as it is being ROTATED, such as a wheel, a lever, handle or some other device, TWISTING, SCREWING or TURNING (see for example 車, 'rotating wheels' that contains three of these elements)…not coincidentally, to convey this same meaning of 'still in action, executing, not yet crashed' in the pre-GUI era, programmers used the sequence of | / — ∖ to indicate a twisting screwing in a rotation motion on a monochrome monitor or terminal.
Depicts a NEEDLE used to TWIST thread around a seam in order to close a hole or turns in a gauge. Two fingers CROSSED with one TWISTED over the other in a SCREWED shape also indicated TEN as a hand gesture used in China.
Nevertheless,「array of vertical rods」meaning FULL as well as TEN as a reference to using all of one's hand digits on both arms (those are eight fingers and two thumbs for most humans) in order to count something, or some event.
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: ten; 10
Japanese: ten, 10
Unihan extended: ten, tenth; complete; perfect
EDRDG: ten
Used within names (nanori)
い ・ か ・ ぎ ・ さ ・ し ・ そ ・ そう ・ ち ・ とう ・ ね ・ ま ・ る ・ わ
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.
Japanese vocabulary: 380 entries
Chinese usage: 196 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 747 entries
- Glyph.00018
- Strokes: 02
- jlpt-N5 grade_01
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