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DA N ・ NA N
o to ko ・ o
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Some insist that the modern elements depict「strength with rice field」to be a MALE, but unfortunately this explanation does not fit with any other glyphs, nor with historical fact, since groups of women were entrusted to plant and harvest crops (委), while the males looked around for something small and preferably defenseless nearby that they could maim or kill without suffering personal injury and then eat, or, more likely gathered into small clusters:
「A broad survey of animal remains recorded at early human and Neanderthal sites across Spain, Portugal and France gives us new insight as to what humans and Neanderthals ate. One trend stuck out to scientists who assembled the data: rabbit remains became much more popular at human sites just about the time that Neanderthals disappeared, about 30,000 years ago.」
[ https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/what-killed-neanderthals-scientists-blame-those-rascally-rabbits-1c8715069 2023-05-17 ]
Also in Chinese meaning the lowest level of nobility, a BARON, having「rice paddy powers」it seems.
「Screwing in orifice with erection in no-longer-integrated foot」describes typical MALES during the dynastic Chinese era: as depicted in erotic Chinese art, men in dynastic China masturbated by wrapping no-longer-integrated feet around an erect penis:「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …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 [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「Evolutionary biologists have traced the origins of masturbation to ancient primates that predate the first humans by tens of millions of years. The findings emerged from what scientists believe is the largest dataset ever compiled on the activity, and confirm that humans arose on a branch of the tree of life replete with self-pleasuring predecessors. 'What we can say is this behaviour was present around 40m (40,000,000) years ago, in the common ancestor of all monkeys and apes,' said Dr Matilda Brindle, the lead researcher on the study at University College London. 'It's not that some species woke up one day and started doing it. This is an ancient, evolved trait.' '…This is such a common behaviour across the animal kingdom, I find it absolutely baffling that nobody has researched it before,' said Brindle. 'For people who think masturbation is wrong, or unnatural in some way, this is perfectly natural behaviour. It's part of our healthy repertoire of sexual behaviours.'」
[ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/07/origins-masturbation-traced-back-primates-40m-years-ago ]
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: male; baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
Japanese: male, man, husband, fellow, guy, chap, bloke, male lover
Unihan extended: male, man; son; baron
EDRDG: male
Used within names (nanori)
み
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 244 entries
Chinese usage: 96 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 17 entries
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- Strokes: 07
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