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KO U ・ KU
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「Emissions」with「stench, loose and dripping」or「emit a stench cloud」depicts the PUBLIC, or being out in PUBLIC and smelling the city or a crowd of people.「Emissions」with「stench, loose and dripping」depicts a MALE with no further explanation needed. UNBIASED is also applicable, since one direction in public doesn't normally smell any better or worse than any other direction. Also meaning a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, a person of HIGH BIRTH STATUS: a「head that is tender, loose and dripping」 but「tied, leashed」with a poultice or codpiece while in PUBLIC.
Perhaps refers to an idea known as 'gibbetting' when「one decapitated head, leashed to a pole」of someone who offended an official is displayed PUBLICLY as evidence of the authority and power of the government, or periodically just to cause pissants to fear their human authority figures. Such heads and corpses are often loose and dripping, a bit stinky, and become maggot-covered in a short time. The PUBLIC display of gibbetting was a common practice with proven efficacy worldwide for tens of thousands of years, but in modern times the practice has fallen out of vogue somewhat with government officials. Instead, gibbetting has become popular with crowds of revolutionaries overthrowing their human authority figures in the past few decades, such as those in Romania, Libya, and so on.
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: public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
Japanese: public, open, formal, official, governmental, you, buddy, pal, monarch, ruler, sovereign, master, public matter, governmental matter, prince, duke, lord, sir, familiar or derogatory suffix, to make public
Unihan extended: fair, equitable; public; duke
EDRDG: public; prince; official; governmental
Used within names (nanori)
あきら ・ き ・ きみ ・ きん ・ たか ・ ただし ・ とも ・ ひろ ・ まさ
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: 517 entries
Chinese usage: 639 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 40 entries
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