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TE I ・ CHO U
u tsu ku shi i
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「Female palming orifices surrounding male」「female with erection」: aside from the obvious combination of the elemental meanings, perhaps referring to hermaphrodite humans, or to females with an exceptionally large clitoris (clitoromegaly):
「The clitoris actually varies more in size than the penis does. 75% of it is inside a woman's body, and though its full length is roughly 10 cm the exposed portion ranges from 2-60 mm. Though it is usually hidden by the clitoral hood it is completely exposed in some women and totally effaced in others. A 'recessed clitoris' is completely below the surface and reveals itself only by stimulation (if at all). But none of this can be explained to jackasses. Girls with unusually-shaped genitalia are sometimes insulted by rude clients, and I've even heard of ignoramuses accusing girls of being post-operative transsexuals because their vulvas don't 'look right' to these (usually young) men, who obviously consider themselves some sort of sex experts because they've been with a couple of dozen women. Fortunately, older men have more experience and therefore realize that the genitalia of women, like those of men, come in all shapes and sizes.」
[ https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/all-shapes-and-sizes/ 2017-08-20 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: graceful
Japanese EDRDG: pretty, attractive, graceful
Unihan extended: pretty; attractive; graceful
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
Chinese usage: 6 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 30 entries
- Glyph.06388
- Strokes: 12 ~ 11
- other
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