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TE I ・ DA I ・ DE
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「Emit sympathy, sharing and understanding the feelings or ideas of another, with head sliding down」depicts the abject posture of a STUDENT, DISCIPLE and perhaps what is expected of a YOUNGER BROTHER or anyone in SERVICE TO ELDERS, suggestive of someone bowing in submission to an elder.
「Emit mourning, sharing and understanding the feelings in the death of another, with head sliding」depicts a「mourning」posture, suggesting that the elders normally die before younger folk.
「Emissions side-to-side and tension for a long time gasping with rod head sliding down」is also suggestive of a YOUNG PERSON still in training, a STUDENT or a DISCIPLE learning from a master, a YOUNGER BROTHER being coached by an elder brother with regard to coital or other techniques with the arch of a no-longer-integrated foot, or two:「head sliding in arches and crotch of slave girl.」
SERVICING AN ELDER…many「side actions with sliding down head」seem to be errors of a 'greenhorn' as an animal with a green, young horn, unable to copulate successfully or just plain infected. Nowadays not many animals possess a single horn: unicorns seem to have died out, narwhals are equipped a long tooth and not a horn, and rhinoceros snouts are composed of compacted hair-like keratin and not bone, so perhaps that leaves only human males as greenhorn STUDENTS normally part of the younger human set with boners:「spurting emissions from rod in reciprocal motion within those golden arches [of very young no-longer-integrated feet providing services to elders] and sliding head」as it sometimes missed the mark, being an uncouth, untrained, barbarian savage.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 悌; younger brother; junior male; I (modest word in letter)
Japanese EDRDG: younger brother, faithful service to elders
Unihan extended: young brother; junior; i, me
Used within names (nanori)
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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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 108 entries
Chinese usage: 71 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 18 entries
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