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GE N ・ GO N
i u ・ ko to
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Traditional elements appear as「head control, or, emphasis on rod」「one-on-one with an orifice (such as, a mouth in some cases, but not always)」to represent INTERCOURSE of some variety when two people are SPEAKING. Note that in some fonts, the top elements are written as「two (二)」but both of the central (一) elements are identical, suggesting these elements as「line after line with mouths under control」while SPEAKING. (You can surely form your own version of these elements as coital activity.) Correct manners dictate only one at a time should speak, not talking while someone else is speaking, although this rule is seldom respected today.
「Palming control covering」of one's「mouth orifice」when「one-on-one」(i.e., with another person or in public) is perhaps the source of the Japanese practice of placing a hand over the mouth when smiling, laughing, eating, belching, passing flatulence or when otherwise supposed to be embarrassed as an idiosyncratic response that is particularly noticeable of women in Japan.
Old glyph with same meanings:「tongue in mouth, a tonguing mouth, a rod within an orifice」(曰). See (句)「words, phrases」that also means「seduction, wrapped within an orifice.」
FOREPLAY, with elements as「palming motions with rods and with orifice」is another arguable integration. A tonguing mouth (曰) as oral sexual intercourse is often the prelude to coital intercourse in the modern world, too. Some things never change; simple pleasures are the best.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: words; speech; to say
Japanese EDRDG: say
Unihan extended: words, speech; speak, say
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: 1321 entries
Chinese usage: 431 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 342 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
訁Similar glyphs with related meanings: 33 entries
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- Strokes: 07
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