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SO KU
a shi ・ ta ri ru ・ ta ru ・ ta su
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「Orifice」with「no-longer-integrated foot」as being SUFFICIENT, ALL THAT IS NEEDED, nothing else required. Also meaning the way that she walks, a special GAIT. The manner or GAIT, PACE one uses to walk…busted bones of the FOOT sole causing concubines with bound feet to often 'trip' along in tiny steps, the paradigm of a desired GAIT in ancient China that is emulated today using high-heeled shoes. When used as a left element, includes「orifice」with「prepubescent girl, raised rod」and「chopped by mattock.」The meaning of SUFFICIENT may derive from having lower legs that just barely enabled someone to walk, with feet bones no-longer-integrated and bound in cloth, or sufficiently satisfying the client's urges, of course, ALL THAT IS NEEDED. Some official sources explain this as a human leg from the kneecap below, neglecting to mention the surrogate orifice in no-longer-integrated foot bones of dynastic China: so, when was a kneecap ever an 'orifice'? more likely, that explanation should be「from the [crotch] orifices down to the feet」as the LEGS, or down to the「orifice of a no-longer-integrated foot」(nonetheless, behind the knee might be a different story…).
「Foot with mouth」as HINDRANCE, TRAP, ENCUMBRANCE, BURDEN may have been the source of the English expression「to put one's foot in one's mouth」yet all these same meanings also apply to the no-longer-integrated feet with surrogate orifices of a Chinese service provider and/or her clients, in one way or another:「putting it in a foot orifice」was a HINDRANCE, TRAP, ENCUMBRANCE, BURDEN.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: foot; to be sufficient; ample; excessive
Japanese EDRDG: leg, foot, be sufficient, counter for pairs of footwear
Unihan extended: foot; attain, satisfy, enough
Used within names (nanori)
あ ・ あす ・ おす ・ たらし
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?
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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: 621 entries
Chinese usage: 256 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 17 entries
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