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TO U ・ ZU
ma me ・ ma me~
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「Arrayed above orifice with spurting」or「spurting orifice wide open」to depict a CLITORIS (see 藿, emerging shaft with heavenly dew in mating stance). When enfolded within the two labia and the clitoral prepuce, externally the clitoris and vulva with two sets of labia plainly resemble the shape and structure of a bean pod, although containing only a single 'bean.' Bean pods are comprised of two encasing tissues, both structures that open roughly into symmetrical halves revealing the bean(s) within, as does the pudendum: the parenchyma, an outer pubescent case (that means, covered with small hair-like structures) and a wet, slippery case of water-storing cells beneath called the hypodermis. These two structures are readily apparent with overcooked soybean pods, known as edamame in Japanese.
「The first comprehensive anatomical study of the clitoris was led by O'Connell and published in 1998. A subsequent study in 2005 examined it under MRI. It was not, O'Connell discovered, just a small nub of erectile tissue, described in some texts as the 'poor homologue' of the penis. Instead it was an otherworldly shape, with the nerve-rich glans merely the external protrusion of an organ that extended beneath the pubic bone and wrapped around the vaginal opening, with bulbs that become engorged when aroused. It looked like an orchid. It was beautiful.」
[ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/01/the-sole-function-of-the-clitoris-is-female-orgasm-is-that-why-its-ignored-by-medical-science 2020-11-01 ]
Moreover:「…the clitoris has over 6,000 nerve fibers. It surrounds the vagina somewhat like a horseshoe, and has 'legs' that extend along the vaginal lips back to the anus.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasm 2011-04-25 ]
See both 實 and 実 for details that plainly explain where quintessential truth is located and may be quite easily discovered by anyone seeking to find it.
「…[T]he vagina has few nerve endings, and therefore cannot create an orgasm on its own. Instead of thinking of the vagina and clitoris as separate entities, try thinking about them as a network of nerves and muscles.」
「In reality, total separation between the vagina and clitoris is mostly artificial, and often based on a misunderstanding of what, where, and how big the clitoris really is. The clitoral organ system actually surrounds the vagina, urethra and anus. Rather than thinking of an orgasm as 'vaginal' or 'clitoral,' it makes more sense to think of orgasm in terms of the feelings that came along with it. In the end, an orgasm is an orgasm is an orgasm!」
「Here's a little bit of history for you: Sigmund Freud made a pronouncement that the 'mature' woman has orgasms only when her vagina, but not her clitoris, is stimulated — this is commonly referred to as the “vaginal orgasm”. The emphasis on stimulation from penetration made the man's penis central to a woman's sexual satisfaction. It is important to emphasize that Freud did not base his theory upon a study of woman's anatomy, but rather upon his assumptions of woman as inferior to men.」
「Back to the basics, stimulating the clitoris and (for some women) pressure in or around the vagina can cause pelvic fullness and body tension to build up to a peak. During sexual excitement, the clitoris swells and changes position. The blood vessels through the whole pelvic area also swell, causing engorgement and a feeling of fullness and sexual sensitivity. The inner vaginal lips swell and change shape, and the vagina balloons upward, causing the uterus to shift position. Orgasm is the point at which all the tension is suddenly released in a series of involuntary and pleasurable muscular contractions in the vagina, uterus, and/or rectum」
[ https://goaskalice.columbia.edu/answered-questions/difference-between-clitoral-and-vaginal-orgasm 2017-05-01 ]…just as the elements in this glyph depict.
Also meaning a MINIATURE of something larger (that is, the penis). In Chinese, a SACRIFICIAL VESSEL, or in other words, divine meat that has been sacrificed…treating female service providers as commodities was common, referring to them using the euphemism of「sacrificial meat.」Also meaning CLITORIS-SHAPED, such as a single bean, THE BEAN one could say.
Not coincidentally, cold tōfu is made from BEANS and that glyph (see 奴) is comprised of elements「female crotch」as the place where a bean-clitoris is located, a 'slave girl' not perhaps as warm as a concubine.
Improbably, scholars say this depicts a takatsuki used in Japan (and not China where the glyph originated), a pot placed upon a short, stubby, one-legged stand set beside a table for serving many people at once, that inexplicably became associated with beans. However, recall that most cultures in Asia have used rice as a food staple for thousands of years, and not beans. This glyph refers to something else that later was extended euphemistically to a bean, and not vice versa. Note that the glyph for a bean formerly was「plant material clitoris-shaped.」…see 荳.
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: bean; pea; sacrificial vessel
Japanese: legume, beans, peas, soya bean, female genitalia, kidney, miniature, tiny, child, sowing beans
Unihan extended: beans, peas; bean-shaped
EDRDG: beans; pea; midget
Used within names (nanori)
ど ・ ま
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: 166 entries
Chinese usage: 147 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 176 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 57 entries
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