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Kun-yomi
あめ ・ あま~ ・ ~さめ
a me ・ a ma~ ・ ~sa me

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Meanings of elements
ROD SEGMENT, RECIPROCATING LATERAL AND VERTICAL MOTIONS with EMISSIONS SPURTING UP AND DOWN, COOLING DRIPS AND DROPS ON ALL SIDES and LOINCLOTH, CLOTH WRAPPING FOR ONE'S HEAD OF SOME SORT, LAP CLOTH, ONE'S PRIDE, FREQUENT REPETITION
…or: FULL EMISSIONS in SCREWING MOTIONS
…or: EXCRETING with DROPS, DRIPPING in all directions
…or: STICKY FLUIDS and ROD DOWN in SPREAD LEGS
…or: ROUTE THAT ENDS AT THE SAME PLACE IT STARTED, A CYCLE, CIRCUIT, CYCLICAL ACTION, SOMETHING THAT FOLLOWS ONE AROUND, MOVE IN A CIRCULAR MOTION, TO SCREW, SCREWING, ACTION OF EXCRETING with MANY DROPS inside SPREAD LEGS with ROD DOWN
Traditional glyphs represent the basic elements as「excreted sticky fluids」「excretions of drops dripping on both sides」「male in spread legs with dripping stream in service provider, sitting person」or「many emissions down inside spread legs」from the gods in heaven, no less, either CONDENSATION as PRECIPITATE from the sky, or as the gods dropping divine DEW down on all of humankind. Can refer to anything that either PRECIPITATES from the surrounding atmosphere, or COMES DOWN FROM THE AIR, SKY, OR HEAVEN, from snow and rain, fog, frost, to spiritual visions or the power of lightning, and of course DEW that manifests from the air without falling from the sky. Note that when RAIN falls, it actually does stick to everything at first, and only runs down when a sufficient amount accumulates for gravity to overcome the molecular attraction that water manifests with most other substances. Some authorities of ancient religions equate RAIN with divine excretions as may be apparent from these elements as well.
Furthermore, the English idiom that appeared around the time English opium dealers were expelled from China,「raining cats and dogs」may well have originated with this glyph depicting excreted sticky fluids from between the legs of both male and female humans:「dog」is a Chinese (and elsewhere) euphemism for the male penis, and「cat, pussy」is a Chinese (and elsewhere) euphemism for the female groin generally. Chicks and birds also excrete whilst in flight, but those are different idioms.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to rain; (of rain, snow etc) to fall; to precipitate; to wet; rain
Japanese EDRDG: rain
Unihan extended: rain; rainy

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 283 entries


Chinese usage: 195 entries


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