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SO KU
a shi ・ ta ri ru ・ ta ru ・ ta su
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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Also meaning the way that she walks, a special GAIT. The manner or GAIT, PACE one uses to walk…busted bones of the FOOT sole causing concubines with bound feet to often 'trip' along in tiny steps, the paradigm of a desired GAIT in ancient China that is emulated today using high heeled shoes. When used as the left element, includes「orifice」with「prepubescent girl, chopped by mattock.」The meaning of SUFFICIENT may derive from having lower legs that just barely enabled someone to walk slowly but never to run, with feet bones no-longer-integrated and bound in cloth. Some official sources tell us this is a human leg from the kneecap below, often neglecting to mention the no-longer-integrated bones, but…when was a kneecap an 'orifice'? behind the knee perhaps, but not the bony kneecap. More likely, that explanation should be「from the orifices down to the feet」as the LEGS, or the「orifice of a no-longer-integrated foot.」
「Foot with mouth」as HINDRANCE, TRAP, ENCUMBRANCE, BURDEN may have been the source of the English expression「to put one's foot in one's mouth」yet all these same meanings also apply to the no-longer-integrated feet with surrogate orifices of a Chinese service provider and/or her clients, in one way or another:「putting it in a foot orifice」was a HINDRANCE, TRAP, ENCUMBRANCE, BURDEN.
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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: foot; to be sufficient; ample; excessive
Japanese: foot, leg, gait, pace, bottom structural component of a kanji, means of transportation, money, coin, counter for pairs, top up, to add, to take care of, to be sufficient, to be enough, to be worthy of, footprints, leg trip, foothold, fetters, shackles, hobbles, encumbrance, hindrance or burden, trap, footjob, something with legs, sole of foot, one's manner of walking, trace, swimfin, flipper, to be worth doing, to answer, to do, to have legs, to be able to get around, to be traced, to be tracked, to have a lover
Unihan extended: foot; attain, satisfy, enough
EDRDG: leg; foot; be sufficient; counter for pairs of footwear
Used within names (nanori)
あ ・ あす ・ おす ・ たらし
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(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.
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These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
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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.
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