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HO U
ho ke ru ・ bo ke ru ・ a ki re ru ・ o ro ka
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Perhaps the inspiration for the English term BLOCKHEAD (look at the glyph again), and anyone with a「blocked head of woody」has likely behaved as might an IMBECILE…the Online Etymology Dictionary states that the use of this term as an insult preceded the use of actual head shapes carved from wood blocks by hatters [ https://www.etymonline.com/word/blockhead 2023-05-18 ]
Anyone who simply exists as an「orifice for woody」i.e., uses sex to survive, need not be any more than an IMBECILE…indeed, the owner/lord/client may prefer that to be the case. Shamans who purchased youths and then trained them to be fellatrices had a vested interest in keeping their service providers EMPTY-HEADED. Lords owning harems filled with such purchased service providers had the same need.
Elements as「orifice screwing emissions」suggest a mind uncluttered by anything other than thoughts of that nature. An IDIOT, a one-track mind, and moving on a single track means eventually being involved in a collision. Indeed, the glyph resembles an「empty-headed, big person flashing woody, or screwing emissions」a SIMPLE-MINDED IMBECILE…same goes for elements as「woody with orifice」「orifices arrayed for screwing copulation」「orifices of small youth arrayed, streaming emissions」(the elements used in various fonts) and so on, with the advantage that this interpretation then may apply to both sexes equally: IN NEED OF PROTECTION.
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; to stay
Japanese EDRDG: be amazed, disgusted, shocked
Unihan extended: dull; dull-minded, simple, stupid
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: 58 entries
Chinese usage: 36 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 70 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 64 entries
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- Strokes: 07
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