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KI
ki nyo u
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Animal hides as「stretched skin」were also the first sails, the source of dipping sails in cattle blood and feces (part of the tanning process), and sails full of wind are「stiff, erect」cause「horizontal movement」of the sailing vessel.
As an element found in 211 other glyphs of this database, 几 refers to a「desk」only once (in the glyph 机), and only in Japanese, but not in the original Chinese, (see the actual Chinese usage in vocabulary) where 机 refers to a pivot point, a sex machine, a device used to bind someone upon a table:「woody with stretched skin」)—begging the question, just what were the scholars trying to pull? meaning of「armrest, small table」refers to placing an arm in one's crotch while at rest, a theme common in these glyphs when idle or at rest. Refers obliquely to a WRITING SURFACE such as a desk or writing table, often covered long ago with STRETCHED SKIN such as leather, prior to the invention of more modern materials such as acrylic, paper, digital tablets, and so on. Vellum and parchment are also「stretched skin」writing surfaces used upon a desk. More accurately defined as a「skin surface upon which occurs much palmed whacking or gentle strokes」(see 文). A「skin surface with inscribing」also suggests cleaning the area within of smegma and other foreign material, and treatment for infections.
Replacement for「machine」as an element (幾).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: how much; how many; several; a few; almost; small table
Japanese EDRDG: table, table enclosure
Unihan extended: small table
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?
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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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 11 entries
Chinese usage: 94 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 208 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 7 entries
- Glyph.00047
- Strokes: 02
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