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KO U ・ YO U
ka mu
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「Masticate with palm covering」is suggestive of covering one's mouth with a hand whilst chewing food with open lips, perhaps one reason why many Japanese females cover their mouth while laughing or chewing.
More importantly, BITING, NIPPING, GNAWING「upon a rod during oral intercourse」has always been a significant danger and great risk associated with that sort of activity when the fellatrix is still equipped with sets of upper and lower incisors (that make 'incisions'), or, six-year molars, or (shudder) both sets of teeth and is seeking some revenge for a perceived wrong that has occurred. Hence, the ancient shaman proprietress pimps needed to find a method that would mitigate their product liability risk, and conceived the idea of using pulverized feet for servicing clients instead of mouths with teeth (see「tooth, teeth」歯 for details), a business model that spread like wildfire throughout ancient China. How dis-integrating feet originated many thousands of years ago was probably related to repercussions of an angry lord after recapturing a runaway sex slave and his being intent upon it not happening again, with his subsequent humiliation of her (and self-preservation of his own meat in mind—avoid those gnashing teeth) and then explained to one clever shaman.
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: to bite; to nip
Japanese: to bite, to chew, to gnaw, to crash against, to break onto, to engage, to mesh, to fit together, to be involved in, to fumble one's words, to falter with one's words, to strongly confute, to argue down, to rebuke, to scold harshly, to force something into someone's mouth, to wedge something into a space, filling it, to inflict, to deal, to pull, to say or do, to try
Unihan extended: bite, gnaw
EDRDG: bite; gnaw; chew; gear with; dash against
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
Japanese vocabulary: 11 entries
Chinese usage: 29 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 4 entries
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齒Similar glyphs with related meanings: 36 entries
- Glyph.02752
- Strokes: 09
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