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CHO U
na ga i ・ o sa
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Compare this glyph to「bougie reaming」and「mauled chattel, ox, cattle」that uses elements of「one」within「pulled flesh to one side」(⺕, 彐, 丑), the people who did not live a long time.
Alternatively as some insist,「vertical array of many horizontal lines」depicts the LONG terraces carved onto slopes as a method of farming to represent the mud, fecal slurry, and water standing in the paddies.「Mattock with repeatedly bent and bobbing」digging irrigation channels and terraces for growing crops in LONG rice paddies cut into the sides of slopes that SPANNED the vertical and lateral LENGTHS up and curving around the hill, and became the SENIOR, CHIEF farming method that EXCELLED and greatly improved the yield and size of rice and other crops roughly 6,000 years ago. Terraced slope farming methods are still in use today, a LONG TIME later.
ELDERS, SENIORS are those who remain a LONG TIME. The CHIEF of a herd has the longest line of submitting females (「contained arrays of sitting persons with legs raised」), as is still true of many animal species today that maintain harems of females in a herd for copulation, moving from place to place to graze literally in very long lines.
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: chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance; length; long; forever; always; constantly
Japanese: head, chief, leader, elder, the greatest of all, the most excellent, long, lengthy, distance, long time, to be prolonged, to drag on
Unihan extended: long; length; excel in; leader
EDRDG: long; leader
Used within names (nanori)
お ・ おしゃ ・ たかし ・ たけ ・ な ・ は ・ ひさ
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: 775 entries
Chinese usage: 430 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 18 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 34 entries
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