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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ソウ ・ ショウ
SO U ・ SHO U
Kun-yomi
あい~
a i~

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Meanings of elements
WOODY and EYES, the GOAL
「Tree watching」is almost as exciting as observing lichen grow, hence not likely the meaning here.「Observing woody」carefully is necessary to give a PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION of the APPEARANCE of something. OBSERVING EACH OTHER MUTUALLY or「woody with eyes, seeing」that describes an inspection of ALL SIDES of the PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, a close OBSERVATION to assure oneself there are no obvious symptoms of any PHASE of disease prior to commencing activity, an inspection of one's own and a partner's woody, EACH OTHER, if only males are involved, AT THE SAME TIME. Not likely describing folks 'peeping at one another from behind trees' as some have suggested.「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called…homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter.」
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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: appearance; portrait; picture; government minister; each other; one another; mutually
Japanese: together, mutually, fellow, alternately, in succession, one's nature, one's destiny, custom, tradition, habit, minister of state, appearance, look, countenance, a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune, aspect, phase, doing something together, co-owning something and using it together, being on par with one another, to assess, sounds given during a conversation to indicate comprehension, back-channeling, coupled with, to be understood, to be comprehended, to be grasped, to become clear, to be known, to be discovered, to be realized, to be realised, to be found out
Unihan extended: mutual, reciprocal, each other
EDRDG: inter-; mutual; together; each other; minister of state; councillor; aspect; phase; physiognomy

Used within names (nanori)
あ ・ い ・ おう ・ さ ・ さが ・ すけ

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 669 entries


Chinese usage: 488 entries


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