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In Japan, the same hairstyle was used by adult male deities, and so in Japan too an additional meaning is DIVINE.
Ostensibly, one interpretation is that the WILL OF THE GODS is for a very young woman to remain CHASTE, not to schtup (ejaculation into a birth canal or other attainable orifice) too rampantly, and may mean「the value of virginity.」Possibly depicting an immovable and solidly chaste virgin but arguably, elements are also「young girl and value, money, resale price.」
The truth is that young girls (who could be confirmed as still virgin) were of fairly great value, since corpulent, wealthy, prurient, greasy, licentious, fishy-smelling「gentlemen」or「nobles」would buy them as concubines (or lease them for a short term) for the enjoyment of fulfilling the dream of going to heaven by deflowering her, and claiming that action was the WILL OF THE GODS, the 'divine right' of royalty (perhaps so, considering all the religious preachers and god-hucksters involved in sex scandals even still in the modern age, although not always with girls). Anyway, the points being made by these elements are firstly: up to the defining moment, that young girl had been「CHASTE with monetary value」and secondly, religious hucksters, psychics, soothsayers, and「diviners will take your money」(it may be worth it, though).
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: chaste
Japanese: firm adherence to one's principles, chastity, to harp too long on a subject
Unihan extended: virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal
EDRDG: upright; chastity; constancy; righteousness
Used within names (nanori)
さざ ･ ただし ･ りょう
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: 37 entries
Chinese usage: 23 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 12 entries
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