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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ゲイ
GE I
Kun-yomi
くじら
ku ji ra

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Meanings of elements
WET SLIPPERY MEAT with COVERED HEAD HOLE and EMITTING STREAM
…or: FISH, SLIPPERY MEAT CAPITAL
「Fish with head orifice emits stream」somewhat describes a WHALE with its blowhole, a characteristic of cetaceans generally.
 While not truly a fish (WHALES are mammals with hair at birth, suckling their young with breast milk the same as bonobos and humans do), no one can deny that whales are the「capital」sea creatures alive today. Right element also can mean a「really large number, big swarm」and whales in days long past were known for traveling in「big swarms」causing hungry and greedy humans to chase them down in boats and harvest the meat and blubber for sale (「fish that provided capital」), often rendered to light street lamps in the big, capital cities, necessitated from the overcrowding of humans on「man-made mounds of dirt」(another meaning of the right element) that spawned corresponding crimes by schmucks against other humans who were easy prey if the streetlamps went out due to lack of rendered whale blubber.
 「Fish」with「capital」flavor…it is truly amazing how much bashing is tolerated just to continue enjoying whale meat—so you know then that it must taste pretty good. While not illegal under international law (as of this date, 2014-04-26) and only banned commercially by the voluntary cooperation of member countries of the International Whaling Commission, anti-whaling activists insist that whale species are vulnerable and that whaling is immoral, unsustainable, and should be banned permanently. And perhaps of some interest to those same folks, note that in addition to Japan, the countries of Canada, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Korea, and the United States of America today also permit the massacre, slaughter, butchering, heartless killing and cruel, inhumane hunting of whales for the purpose of maintaining traditions, for food, and/or for research, but for some odd reason without the same singular, hypocritical, anti-whaling bashing that the Japanese endure annually…many of these same Japan-bashers regularly eat other meats, and would gladly kill the human whalers if they could without having a second thought about it, cheering if the whaling vessel were to sink.

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: whale
Japanese: whale, spermaceti
Unihan extended: whale
EDRDG: whale

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 56 entries


Chinese usage: 19 entries


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