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コウ ・ キョウ
KO U ・ KYO U

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Meanings of elements
OLD CHILD
…or: OLD MAN with CHILD
…or: HOMOSEXUAL CHILD, MAGGOT, RAT
…or: HOMOSEXUAL with ROD in FULLY COMPLETED CYCLE
…or: HEAD SLIDING within CHILD FECES
「Old man」with「child」presumes a natural bond exists between them as DEVOTION TO PARENTS, but stop and ask yourself now how you feel about your own parents…most likely, there are mixed feelings and not all is purely devotional.
「Homosexual array of ejaculations」or a「homosexual child」may be unlikely to marry unless forced to, hence would stay at home, naturally caring for parents and appearing as the epitome of FILIAL PIETY, having DEVOTION TO PARENTS. Note that in dynastic China nobody cared if an adult child was involved with homosexual relationships, or with children, or homosexually with children incestuously for that matter (as in, these elements as「head sliding within child's feces」), but an exclusively homosexual array of ejaculations would not likely produce an heir, and morally that was the cardinal sin in Chinese society, so to speak.
Without any doubt in light of so many other glyphs referring to anal sex, fellatio, rearing instructions of a parent and so on, a「child with/of a homosexual」would rival the epitome of FILIAL PIETY, having DEVOTION TO THE PARENT(S) in many servicing aspects.
Elements appear as「homosexual maggot」in some fonts, and in fact animals in the maggot stage of development do not reproduce, and neither does a person PURELY DEVOTED to homosexuality. In Chinese an additional meaning of MOURNING the dead is intended, as if to imply that the family line will die out in such circumstances. Formerly, the top element was「center of the head」with「crossed, whacking motion」or「whacking hand」over either「child」or「maggot」(敎) that pundits claim depicted the practice of whacking love and obedience into the head of a child, if such a thing is possible…more likely, the father wanted some other form of whacking with the son, or perhaps at the time Chinese people had accepted the remote possibility of maggots having a sexual preference?
「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.」
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: filial piety or obedience; mourning apparel
Japanese EDRDG: filial piety, child's respect
Unihan extended: filial piety, obedience; mourning

Used within names (nanori)
たか ・ たかし ・ のり ・ よし

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 24 entries


Chinese usage: 59 entries


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