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キュウ
KYU U
Kun-yomi
な(く
na ku

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Meanings of elements
FLUID from ERECTION
…or: FLUIDS with STANDING
「Flow with erect and swelled」perhaps meaning to cause loud noises to be emitted from one's mouth as MOANING, HOLLERING, WAILING and CRYING OUT LOUD. Certainly a recurring「flow of fluid from swelled erection」would yield falling drops similar to tears, but more likely those gleet drops would be the cause of that wailing, SOBBING, TEARS. A dose of clap was surely one good reason to WEEP, CRY in the old days prior to effective antibiotics, a cause of MOANING, HOLLERING, WAILING and CRYING OUT LOUD, lamenting with face contorted when discovering the clap, a「flow of fluids from standing erection」that is, an erection when not in motion, hence the flow is undesirable. Of course,「fluid with engorged, swelled」can also refer to swollen eye sockets when sobbing, as might「fluid standing」in one's eyes,「flow and palm spurting」with tears while covering crying eyes.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to sob
Japanese EDRDG: cry, weep, moan
Unihan extended: cry, sob, weep

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 134 entries


Chinese usage: 17 entries


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