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SIMILAR KIND is an obvious reference to homosexual preference for a「similar kind of person.」Note that in China and Japan before the arrival of the Jesuits there were few (if any) social taboos regarding homosexuality. Samurai and old men often were openly bisexual or homosexual, as they are again today and proud of being so: recall from your days camping that burning fagot (faggot), those with smoking red hot embers on one end, are more conspicuous than those sticks still in the cold woodpile. Meaning of SOMEONE refers to this glyph's use for an unnamed person whom everyone has already identified, but remains unnamed in the gossip (instead, perhaps, the speaker gives a knowing [nod, nod…wink! wink!] meaning「you know who I'm talking about…」DebunKanji does not state a moral opinion regarding the use of the term FAGOT (FAGGOT) to describe HOMOSEXUAL MALES, but is simply explaining how and why the use of the term originated, and the glyphs behind that usage.
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) …; (after a noun) person involved in …; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
Japanese EDRDG: someone, person
Unihan extended: that which; he who; those who
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?
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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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 1799 entries
Chinese usage: 566 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 55 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 45 entries
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- Strokes: 08 ~ 09
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