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Gothic:
怯
怯

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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
キョウ ・ コウ
KYO U ・ KO U
Kun-yomi
ひる(む ・ おびえ(る ・ おじる ・ おび(える ・ おそ(れる
hi ru mu ・ o bi e ru ・ o ji ru ・ o bi e ru ・ o so re ru

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Meanings of elements
RETCHING FROM STENCH with ROD ENGAGED
…or: DEEP FEELING and TO GO BAD OR RANCID, TO ROT, CHASE AWAY
…or: DIFFICULT TO FORGET with NIGHT SOIL and STENCH, LOOSE AND DRIPPING
References to a「putrid rod」need no explanation: a「rod with stench that causes retching and vomiting」might elicit a few WINCES and FLINCHES, as might poor country folk not wanting to hire a shaman to perform the foot-dis-integrating while thinking that they can pocket the fee as savings, but then botching the job. Rural country folk are often depicted in glyphs as sheep tuppers and/or anal aficionados resembling our earliest ancestors:「The bonobo, an African ape closely related to humans, has an even bigger sexual appetite. Studies suggest 75 percent of bonobo sex is nonreproductive and that nearly all bonobos are bisexual.」 [ https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/weird-animal-sex-facts 2023-05-44 ]
「Like humans but unlike chimps and most other animals, bonobos separate sex from reproduction. They seem to treat sex as a pleasurable activity, and they rely on it as a sort of social glue, to make or break all sorts of relationships. 'Ancestral humans behaved like this,' proposes Frans de Waal, an ethologist at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University. 'Later, when we developed the family system, the use of sex for this sort of purpose became more limited, mainly occurring within families [i.e., incest]. A lot of the things we see, like pedophilia and homosexuality, may be leftovers that some now consider unacceptable in our particular society.' 」
[ https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/casual-sex-play-common-among-bonobos 2023-05-14 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: timid; cowardly; rustic
Japanese EDRDG: cowardice, wince, flinch, hesitate, waver
Unihan extended: lacking in courage, afraid

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.


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Japanese vocabulary: 10 entries


Chinese usage: 19 entries


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