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KU N
ka o ru ・ ka o ri gu sa ・ ka o ri
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「Plant」and「smoke-curing, fragrant smoke」apparently referring to the tonka bean that when dried appears black and wrinkly, as if it had been smoke-cured (but is not) and contains coumarin, a sweet-smelling spice (lethal in large doses, however) used as a perfume, FRAGRANCE, AROMA, SCENT. Note that there are plenty of other「plants when smoked, cured」besides the tonka bean that release a wonderful AROMA, SCENT, FRAGRANCE when heated or smoked. CAUTERIZE is using a hot iron to burn an open wound in living flesh, immediately forming a surface of burnt meat in order to stanch profuse bleeding,「burning hot shafts emerging for blackening bleeding ruptured flesh.」…smells like barbequing seared meat, because that is what it is.
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: sweet-smelling grass; Coumarouna odorata; tonka beans; coumarin; fragrance; warm; to educate; variant of 熏; to smoke; to fumigate
Unihan extended: a medicinal herb; to cauterize
EDRDG: a medicinal herb; to cauterize
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
Chinese usage: 10 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 16 entries
- Glyph.10826
- Strokes: 17 ~ 20
- grade_10
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