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Meanings of elements
ERECTION in sundry VERTICAL MOTIONS
Apparently, if we can believe elementary grade schoolbooks, depicts the FLOW of a CREEK, STREAM, or RIVER between riverbanks, one on each side. Despite this teaching, not all creek and river flows ROIL with AGITATION, and those which do are generally not roiling all the time in every place.「Quick movements」with「up-down」suggesting flows from a higher elevation down to a lower level, and finally to sea level. Note that all rivers flow with some degree of vertical vector component, a downward direction at a faster or slower (i.e., changing) rate that may be indicated by these two vertical stroke lengths. Despite the given external meanings, rivers that do not flow, such as in an area of level country, become wetland marsh bogs,「bogged down.」Those flows with the greatest degree of vertical vector are referred to as waterfalls.
Undeniably, reference is also to a FLOW OF FLUIDS as「erection with varying vertical motions」and the resulting ROILING flow, streaming fluids due to AGITATION either naturally or manually…note that there are likely little if any fluid flows when agitating motions are absent. Rivers of fluids have been created by hordes of various species during the river of time of all sexual animal life on the planet (see related glyphs), generally roiling as much as possible.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: river; creek; plain; an area of level country; abbr. for Sichuan Province 四川 in southwest China
Japanese EDRDG: stream, river
Unihan extended: stream, river; flow; boil

Used within names (nanori)
か ・ こ ・ さわ

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 183 entries


Chinese usage: 217 entries


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