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NI N ・ JI N ・ I
mi zu no e
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In modern form, scholars say this is a simplification of three very different original elements that today use this glyph but all are some sort of BURDEN: a SPINDLE (such as used with a loom to spool threads) when full bears a burden, a NOBLE or court official as a social and monetary burden, and PREGNANT being associated with all kinds of CAUSES OF PAIN that must be TOLERATED, to have no choice but to BEAR A BURDEN.
Glyph appears as if a truly fat person is standing with head bowed,「repeated head bobbing with penis」「array of penis」or, often schtupped (ejaculation into a birth canal or other attainable orifice) as the BURDEN of a service provider: this activity likely leads to one of the participants becoming pregnant. It was also primary activity of court nobles (with concubines, or other nobles perhaps).
A spindle, a noble, pregnant woman, and palace concubine all do resemble a penile erection in some ways, as they becomes fat and full, engorged with thread or penile discharges (糸) from repeated screwings, turning, winding as it is used but then shrink again.
Glyph is also the NINTH sign of the ten stems in Chinese astrology meaning Nona, ninth (九「spurting, late stage, ejaculation」) as in VERY PREGNANT in the LATE STAGES, nine-tenths complete, and refers to「great waters」of an amniotic sac ready to burst, or a tertiary case of the clap. The so-called「ten heavenly stems」(十天干) all have something to do with a male erection or the application thereof: 1 甲, 2 乙, 3 丙, 4 丁, 5 戊, 6 己, 7 庚, 8 辛, 9 壬, 10 癸.
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: ninth of 10 heavenly stems 十天干; ninth in order; letter "I" or roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; nona
Japanese: 9th in rank, ninth sign of the Chinese calendar
Unihan extended: 9th heavenly stem
EDRDG: 9th calendar sign
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: 16 entries
Chinese usage: 9 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 44 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 10 entries
- Glyph.00298
- Strokes: 04
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