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NA N ・ NA
mi na mi
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Some scholarly sources suggest that the central-lower element represents a「penis spurting」(干 with emissions upward). Various Asian cultures believe that eating the penis of an animal can be healthful and libidinous…clearly, ingesting testosterone, a powerful steroid, will indeed influence a person's health.
「People have been known to spend up to $5700 (£3000) [out-of-date exchange rate] on a particularly rare tiger penis dish, something that needed to be ordered months in advance. A dried tiger penis is more commonly sold at around $2500 (£1300) in Singapore and Taiwan. The penis can be taken in soup, ground in wine (tiger penis wine), or soaked in rice. One method of preparation, particularly in the Mekong River Delta [SOUTH of China], is to place a dried tiger penis, with testicles still attached, into a bottle of French cognac or Chinese wine and let it soak for many weeks. Then, as it matures, the liquor is taken in sips every night.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_penis 2014-11-1 ]
Some suggest「tiger」with「fleshpot」literally, as a tiger's「special meat (penis) and gonads」in a soup for supper, a favorite of southern Chinese princesses to build levels of testosterone in their own systems (steroids), to promote LIBIDINAL STIMULATION, an APHRODISIAC. Possibly referred to the practice of ingesting cooked tiger penis for achieving vigor and vitality from the testosterone boost, THE NEED TO GET ONESELF GOING. TIGER GENITALS are well known in the Orient for their many magical properties, unfortunately, since this pseudo-knowledge is leading to the demise of tigers worldwide. The tigers are normally killed prior to genital removal, but if not, tigers do not last long without a schwantz, as they are prone to bleeding to death as the animal SACRIFICES its MEAT and its life for humans. There is some truth to obtaining benefits from consuming testosterone contained in male genitalia, but fish testes or human spunk or any other sources of jism would serve just as well as tiger schwantz and gonads.
Understandably, tiger schwantz was (and still is) a commodity that was rather difficult to obtain, since most male tigers wish to retain their penis, and removal of that treasured and precious animal part from that treasured and precious animal was dangerous. Since it was so expensive with limited supply, tiger penis was presented as a gift to lords, kings, emperors, and other noble sorts, as an OFFERING, a DONATION from sycophants to gain favor.
Modern elements are「intimate happiness inside spread legs」or「twisting, screwing」a「female sex slave twice in spread legs」「between spread legs」(南) TO GET ONESELF GOING off to the shaman and her fleshpots of service providers, or that may also refer to multiple sessions with a bougie reaming one's urethra after contracting gonorrhea during a visit with the fleshpots (see 罱), GET GOING AGAIN, but dropping the tiger/fleshpot-connected imagery (see 聿).
Modern elements now also used as SOUTH, and referred to the area thought by the so-called high and cultured Chinese to be the land of disrespected barbarians: actually, tiger penis was/is particularly enjoyed in Laos and Cambodia, and all across Southeast Asia until tigers became scarce and nearly extinct due to this practice. Some scholars and dictionaries claim this a bell, dong, clapper, and suggest that infections associated with the shaman's establishments are today referred to as the Clap in English and THE NEED TO GET ONESELF GOING again by reaming with a bougie after the urethra becomes clogged with scar tissue and gleet. Nevertheless, most Asian bells were not equipped with internal clappers, DONGS, as some have presumed to be depicted in this glyph. Asian bells are generally rammed with a large woody shaft horizontally (not a joke).
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: south
Japanese: south, to go
Unihan extended: south; southern part; southward
EDRDG: south
Used within names (nanori)
なみ ・ は ・ みな ・ みまみ
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: 235 entries
Chinese usage: 689 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 9 entries
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