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Alternative meanings may refer to the ways the sages equated so-called common people with scorpions.「Ten thousand, scorpion」(plenty of people or animals) with a marker stroke to indicate and emphasize area directly between the pedipalps, those claw-like pincers, and in front of the chelae (near the mouth), normally the spot where the venomous barb on the scorpion's tail will strike while it holds its prey. Curiously, the scorpion's tail is most often UPRIGHT, and arches over its body as the venom barb penetrates its victim at a 90-degree, RIGHT ANGLE, SQUARE in shape to both its body and to the pincers nearly every time. The tail strikes with the most penetration if the force is applied evenly from all sides and the tail achieves the most direct strike possible. In addition to a pair of eyes that view forward, the scorpion also has from two to five pairs of eyes (near the marker stroke again, and depending upon subspecies) on the side corners of its head for SIDE vision, enabling the animal to be keenly aware of any ACTION FROM THE SIDE.
A scorpion employs MULTIPLE METHODS FOR ACCOMPLISHING THE SAME RESULT of attacking and poisoning prey (emphasis point, again), using a variety of combinations of two very different venoms. The scorpion behaves somewhat like the PERSON OF A HUMAN BEING in that it is the only animal known, other than humans, that appears to kiss and hold its partner mouth-to-mouth while copulating (marker again), but the animals are not actually kissing for sexual pleasure it is thought, and will copulate whilst sometimes inserting venom into its partner, again similar to humans…glyph meaning「heart, mind, spirit, feelings」(particularly the original shape) resembles both a scorpion tail and human male genitals as appendages spewing venom.
While a mother may hatch many scorplings after each mating, it will hold them inside its body, regardless of the various male sperm packets she has gathered from her various suitors. Scorpions spend most of the time hiding underground in burrows or under rocks, an allusion to the pit holes with flat rocks as sandstone doors of early「commoner class」humans. The gestation period of scorplings is nine months or so, as it is for humans. Mother scorpions carry their young on their backs (and tails), as do humans in the Orient with slings. Scorplings are unable to fend for themselves for many months in both defense and for feeding, and rely totally on the mother as do human babies, and unlike most other small animals at birth.
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: square; power or involution (mathematics); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter
Japanese: suffix used as a rough indicator of location, direction, time, etc., way, person, lady, gentleman, method of, manner of, way of, care of …, person in charge of …, side, honorific pluralizing suffix, around, about, Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., makes words more polite, state, situation, appearance, surrounding area, shore, one's part, type, category, field, indicates one side of a comparison, means, length, they, gentlemen, you, various, here and there, this way and that way, had better, had better not, to settle, to put an end to, to be disposed of, to be settled, to come to an end, I would rather, strong preference
Unihan extended: a square, rectangle; a region; local
EDRDG: direction; person; alternative
Used within names (nanori)
から ・ な ・ なた ・ ふさ ・ まさ ・ みち ・ も ・ わ
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
Japanese vocabulary: 818 entries
Chinese usage: 438 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 134 entries
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