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ゲン
GE N
Kun-yomi
まぼろし
ma bo ro shi

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Meanings of elements
WHAT!? SCREAMING AND HOLLERING, SMALLEST, YOUNGEST, MOST TENDER, PROFESSIONAL CARE NEEDED and EXTREME TENSION, GASPS, TAUT, TIGHT, SPRING-LIKE ACTION
…or: MISSHAPEN and LOOSE DRIPPING STINK with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT OF CHINESE FEMALE
「Screaming youngest and smallest」with「no-longer-integrated feet, long time in high tension with gasps」from a very, very young age from the time when her feet were first no-longer-integrated becoming a young service provider, a DREAM, an ILLUSION, the FANTASY of potential clients as revenue derived from her sale for the other family members. PHANTOM and APPARITION suggest a dream-like state, but also that the foot-dis-integrating rings an early death knell for the child (see「kid, kidding, to kid」䍬).
Youthful girls (好) as the stuff of DREAMS in China:「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…[folks] took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term),…Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
Note the simplified Chinese today of「dream」is「two woodies with meat」(梦), perhaps in both feet of the 'kid' causing a mottled appearance, or, simply with one another of course.
「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977). In 19th century London the going price for a virginal, 12-year-old girl, of good background, was reported to be 400 pounds (Bullough, 1964).」
[ https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: fantasy
Japanese EDRDG: phantasm, vision, dream, illusion, apparition
Unihan extended: illusion, fantasy, mirage

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: 44 entries


Chinese usage: 46 entries


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