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KI N ・ KO N ・ GO N
ka ne ・ ka na~ ・ ~ga ne
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As in English, a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY: undoubtedly, describes the source of revenue and wealth for the shamans and other brothel proprietresses, and activities with expenses of the lords. One person's expense is another's revenue in most cases.
Perhaps the Chinese「emperor's imperial array」of wealth, concubines, meat and gold, noting that the「emissions」elements are sometimes drawn inverted, with change of direction perhaps, but not meaning per se.
It has been suggested that in dynastic China, digging gold, golden was the euphemism for anal sex (with the resulting golden brown paste), and silver that of oral sex (with the resulting whitish glossy wetness), not so different from the rating standards still in use today by university fraternity houses…moreover, usage in glyphs with 金 as an element supports this suggestion.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音
Japanese EDRDG: gold
Unihan extended: gold; metals in general; money
Used within names (nanori)
かん ・ きむ ・ こ ・ この ・ ん
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: 1298 entries
Chinese usage: 785 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 465 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 22 entries
- Glyph.00208
- Strokes: 08
- jlpt-N5 grade_01
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