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ko ro ga ru ・ ko ro ge ru ・ ko ro ga su ・ ko ro bu ・ ma ro bu ・ u ta ta
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Alternatively, perhaps a「rotating arm with a squeezing grip」protruding from a drop spindle of a loom. The drop spindle gathers multiple hanging or「dropped」single silk fibers into a twisting, squeezing grip. A single silk fiber from one cocoon averages 1,000 meters in length (3/5 of a mile), very long, thin, strong threads. The mass of cocoons GYRATES and TUMBLES over and over as the threads are unwound, making them look as if the mass of caterpillars within were still alive. Multiple fibers are gathered by the extended arm and spun into a single thicker thread with a ROTATING MOTION. The task of operating a drop spindle requires constantly watch the fibers feeding into the spindle, and to connect an additional fiber from a new cocoon each time a fiber ends by replacing one spent stream of raw silk with a fresh one, thus assuring that the continuous thread maintains the same relative strength and thickness throughout.
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: to revolve; to turn; to circle about; to walk about; classifier for turns: revs; classifier for repeated actions; to convey; to forward (mail); to transfer; to turn; to shift
Unihan extended: shift, move, turn
EDRDG: shift; move; turn
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: 263 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 27 entries
- Glyph.11471
- Strokes: 18
- grade_10
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