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KO U
ta ka i ・ ta ka ・ ~da ka ・ ta ka ma ru ・ ta ka me ru
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Yet,「control, palming orifice of vagina」while within a harem indicates the PRIDE of a HAUGHTY concubine who obviously flaunts her position…the suggestion of a proud harem member as the subject is perhaps the result of deductive reasoning, since back in the old bonobo days, no one would have cared if anyone else palmed her own vaginal orifice, ever—it was encouraged, actually. Same elements but with「male, streaming array」between the「spread legs」(亭) means 'pavilion, inn, erect' as a place for entertaining clients staying the night, paying the high prices, expensive fun. For thousands of years, human control over an array of haughty vaginas and other orifices has been the source of VAST SUMS of wealth: see 樓
As an honorific applied to the emperor's wealth and possessions of thousands upon thousands of kept concubines being hugely symbolic, with TALL being more akin to OUT-OF-REACH of ordinary royals (let alone us serfs). What better symbol of WEALTH, PRIDE, HAUGHTY and EXPENSIVE HIGH-COST than the Chinese emperor's 10,000-member harem? and face it, one short guy with over ten thousand concubines dedicated solely to him just can't get around to them all with anywhere close to the needed frequency, especially when distracted with the affairs of state, running an empire, and constant warfare, so the most famous trademark of the land's most gorgeous women was the need to take care of their own needs and the needs of friends without waiting for his majesty to stroll in, particularly when stated as a joke among sages.
Some sources say a tall watchtower or silo, with spread legs as a wide foundation and orifice as a means of entering the tower from the bottom, or releasing the grain from the silo, a TALL tower, built upon a hill or high ground, but unfortunately this explanation leaves most given meanings unexplained.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)
Japanese EDRDG: tall, high, expensive
Unihan extended: high, tall; lofty, elevated
Used within names (nanori)
か ・ こ ・ じょい ・ た ・ はか
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
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, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
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 seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they 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 lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
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Japanese vocabulary: 768 entries
Chinese usage: 731 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 39 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 42 entries
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