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ガイ ・ カイ ・ ゲ
GA I ・ KA I ・ GE
Kun-yomi
おさ(める ・ か(る
o sa me ru ・ ka ru

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Meanings of elements
ONE SIDE THEN THE OTHER
…or: SLIDING DOWN and STRETCHED TAUT
…or: HEAD LEASHED
Human masters soon learned that「head leashed」was generally considered a good practice to follow prior to administering a WHIPPING or BEATING to another human being, or to another species of smaller animal, such as a dog. Crossing motion, WHACKING in both directions, such as with a whip or cane or scythe.「One side, and then the other」suggests whacking of some sort on both sides. Whipping and beating also refers to SUBDUE. One way or another, these actions all suggest the application of a human hand or hands, and this modern version in very old glyphs may have suggested a hand or hands performing some action.
These two elements are likely symmetrical representations of each other, as CROSSED taut woodies with all the same meanings of whacking, petting, beating, subduing, and so on. Scholars say that this element represents male homosexuality for this reason.
GOVERNING CONTROL, MANAGEMENT TACTICS, GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS were ordered BY LAW and enforced during endemic outbreaks of sexually transmitted diseases in the attempt to stem the tide. Infected people were forced to wear a codpiece and loincloth to prevent contagious dripping in public places, and undergo treatment by reaming with a bougie, again and again until symptoms abated. Official records were maintained of the treatment results to enable tracing of an outbreak or resurgence, and shaman brute squads enforced the laws under government authority, going door to door when the need arose. (See: 'magistrate, authority' 尹 and 津)

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to regulate; to govern; to control; to mow
Japanese EDRDG: mow, cut grass, subdue
Unihan extended: govern, control, manage; nurture

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.


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