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ta t to i ・ to u to i ・ ta t to bu ・ to u to bu
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Depicts「emit, or, on each side of」a「wine jar」and「careful hand, a squeezing grip」meaning to RESPECTFULLY pour wine using two hands (if from a bottle, with one on each side), for a guest, superior, or one's「clan chieftain」very careful again to avoid any spillage that would be disrespectful. Note that in Japan, when pouring any drink for another person, you must hold the vessel with two hands or it will be disrespectful to the recipient, and hold your cup with two hands or it is disrespectful to the person pouring for you.
Alternatively, the only way to gain a「cocky clan chieftain's」RESPECT is to grab ahold of what is「emitted on each side of his cock, scrotum and testicles」in a「squeezing grip」grabbing those things that are PRECIOUS, ESTEEMED and SACRED to him in order to garner some RESPECT. Described in English as grabbing him 'by the balls, by the short and curlies, etc.'
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
Japanese EDRDG: revered, valuable, precious, noble, exalted
Unihan extended: respect, revere, venerate; honor
Used within names (nanori)
さだ ・ たか ・ たけ ・ みこと
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: 101 entries
Chinese usage: 79 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 12 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 7 entries
- Glyph.05594
- Strokes: 12
- jlpt-N3 grade_06
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