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シン ・ チン
SHI N ・ CHI N
Kun-yomi
はしか
ha shi ka

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Meanings of elements
ILLNESS, DISEASE, SICK, PHYSICAL AILMENT, LYING DOWN and with BLACK GLOSSY BUSH HAIR
「Illness with glossy shiny wet short hairs」MEASLES is a highly contagious and infectious disease easily spread by contact with an infected person's nasal mucus, such as sneezed bits of snot: anyone of any age can contract measles, and the running nasal mucus will cover the short facial hairs of an adult male, who in dynastic China virtually always wore a mustache and beard. The「skin rash of measles」generally first appears behind the ears and the back of the neck where itching and scratching cause bleeding and「glossy matted hairs」then spreads to the head and covers the entire body. Measles causes a high fever.
As for other skin-related diseases,「illness in person's short hairs」suggests the place or persons who may have transmitted the illness as「where folks lie down, place of disease with person's short hairs」and specifically「illness with glossy shiny wet bush hairs.」Red bumps on the skin, perhaps originating as razor burn but later applicable to any skin rash, pox, chancre, lesion and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: measles; rash
Japanese EDRDG: measles, sickness
Unihan extended: measles; rash; fever

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: 26 entries


Chinese usage: 27 entries


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