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Meanings of elements
EAR-MARKED
…or: FLAGGED SOLDIER with NOISY SPEAR
「Earmarked」such as is performed with cattle, swine, sheep and other livestock animal assets of the lord (or, CEO) as EMPLOYEES. Left element is「ear」and refers to things you have heard and learned by listening, hopefully, but it also is the shape of a vertical flag attached to a pole used in China and Japan to indicate which army a foot soldier or「dog」belonged, and today, often to advertise business services. Right element means a「marker」of some sort (a「noisy dog staked?」).「Ear-like」in this case refers to something like a banner attached to the lance stuck in the ground (the first flags), and was used by tradespeople and merchants to display as a sign the type of business that they performed. Note that the center element is「swollen tongue in mouth」of a defiant unruly slave that was pierced and then a metal bar was inserted in order to「brand, mark」the slave as a biter, and some folks at jobs also often consider 'this job is a bite' and quitting after being treated like a sex slave or a staked dog on the job, being「earmarked」and dehumanized as just another chunk of living meat. Another obvious interpretation is「marked foot soldier」as an EMPLOYEE of the company, or employed by the lord.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: office; duty
Japanese EDRDG: post, employment, work
Unihan extended: duty, profession; office, post

Used within names (nanori)
もと

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: 255 entries


Chinese usage: 104 entries


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