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ha ta su ・ ha ta su ・ ~ha ta su ・ ha te ru ・ ~ha te ru ・ ha te
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「Inside orifice, cavity」of「sheep, not yet ready, anything immature」all point to RESOLUTE DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED IN DOING one's desire in dynastic China, as these elements might refer to ovine zooerastia that was highly respected and praiseworthy, equated with deflowering an immature virgin as an experience long remembered by all involved, or even deflowering a ewe for that matter…「not yet in orifice」with「woody and muck hole screwing」obviously refers to desire for anal activity of some nature, whether with ewe, or not.
Some scholars suggest the top element is a morphed「cavity with two sets of lips」(臼) or「grasping with both the left and right hand」and a「woody」as in SUCCEED IN ACCOMPLISHING the goal, actions that USE UP the fruits and leave a RESOLUTE person EXHAUSTED. See the Used-In glyphs, such as 倮 meaning 'nude, naked, bare skinned' as it refers to genitalia.
As a「rice paddy tree」these elements might seem a bit strange, since most trees do not grow too well under water in muck-filled ponds, not to mention that farmers generally dislike trees growing within their rice paddies. The original rice paddies were built upon terraced slopes after removing all the nearby trees and stumps to allow maximum sunlight to reach the crops evenly and as much as possible.
The meaning of ENLIGHTENMENT perhaps has something to do with both the Chinese proclivity for engaging in oral and/or anal sex, and the English epithet (used only in the past and never spoken today of course) for male homosexuals by referring to them as FRUITS, particularly in light of these elements.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: fruit; result; resolute; indeed; if really
Japanese EDRDG: fruit, reward, carry out, achieve, complete, end, finish, succeed
Unihan extended: fruit; result
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 308 entries
Chinese usage: 237 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 48 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 11 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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