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A ・ O
o mo ne ru ・ ku ma
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Recall that the left element means a「terraced slope」covered by rice paddies filled with water, mud, and fecal slurry, so that all levels may not be seen at once. Walking while working on the steep slopes and being in a stressful condition for a long time, working in slippery mud, a person could take quite a tumble if he or she slipped. A hidden area or FISSURE that is RECESSED between mounds, hills as a CRANNY, or a NOOK.
FLATTERY (in English, meaning「to smooth the surface of something by flattening」) applies to the various flattened levels of wet paddies up and down the slope in order to permit the growing of rice, and figuratively to hidden agendas or purposes. A FLATTERER may be an「asshole with possibilities.」Something that is said in a BROWN-NOSING, ASS-KISSING, obsequious manner: more cracks and crannies between buttocks mounds, it seems (note that the glyph 屙 means to defecate). A hidden area or FISSURE that is RECESSED between mounds, a CRANNY, a NOOK. The left element is a euphemism for a「human buttocks」and anus, with a「mouth」nearby, kissing away for a「long time in extremely stressful conditions while gasping and holding one's breath」and the nose becoming brown after being soiled by residual feces (as with slurry in the mud paddies. 痾 means dysentery). Being a FLATTERING, BROWN-NOSING, ASS-KISSER is a slippery slope to disaster, and FOOLISH.
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: flatter; prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity; used in transliteration; abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗
Japanese: corner, nook, recess, a shadow, a shade, to flatter, Om, Aun, syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma, inspiration and expiration, respiration, alpha and omega, Akshobhya
Unihan extended: prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
EDRDG: Africa; flatter; fawn upon; corner; nook; recess
Used within names (nanori)
ほとり ・ あず ・ あわ ・ おか ・ きた ・ な
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: 130 entries
Chinese usage: 432 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 4 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 31 entries
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