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KO U ・ GO
o ri ru ・ o ro su ・ fu ru ・ fu ri ・ ku da ru ・ ku da su
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「Terraced slope, human backside」with「spread feet」「inverted feet」as in scrambling feet to suggest summersaulting down a slope, meaning to DESCEND RATHER QUICKLY and out of control, DROP DOWN, or to SURRENDER, CAPITULATE, GET OFF THE HIGH GROUND and run for your life as the enemy swarms over the hill in hot pursuit. Dictionaries say the right element is to「plop down from heaven」that for most mortals would mean a sudden stop at the end of that journey, likely resulting in showing up as a Denver omelet at your own funeral. Elements depict the fate of your ass in the hands of pursuers after being captured (to HAVE THE RUNS), or after being sold as a sex slave.
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and [her owner] took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
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: to surrender; to capitulate; to subdue; to tame; to drop; to fall; to come down; to descend
Japanese: to make, to pass, to hand down, to let go down, to lower, to do oneself, to do by oneself, giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles, rainfall, snowfall, alighting, descending, to descend, to go down, to come down, to be handed down, to surrender, to capitulate, to be less than, to be inferior to, to have the runs, to have diarrhea, to precipitate, to fall, humble conjunction used when referring to oneself in a letter to one's superior, after a time, later, to send, to shed, to alight, to get off, to disembark, to dismount, to step down, to retire, to give up, to quit, to be granted, to be issued, to be given, to form, to be passed, dropping, unloading, removing, grated vegetables, fruit, etc., grater, using new tools, to take down, to launch, to drop, to let off, to unload, to discharge, to drop off, to withdraw money from an account, to wear for the first time, to fillet, to begin to rain, to begin to snow
Unihan extended: descend, fall, drop; lower, down
EDRDG: descend; precipitate; fall; surrender
Used within names (nanori)
ふり ・ ふる
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: 207 entries
Chinese usage: 108 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 21 entries
- Glyph.02838
- Strokes: 09 ~ 10
- jlpt-N3 grade_06
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