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RYU U ・ RU
to me ru ・ to ma ru ・ to do me ru ・ to do ma ru ・ ru u bu ru
Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]
Some say top elements resemble「repeated mattock point biting」with「reaming」(marker stroke emphasizes the「point」) that perhaps refers to the repeated movement of an animal powering a plowshare to till and break up the soil of a「rice paddy」as if there were many mattocks being repeatedly wielded by humans. Conceptually a plowshare cutting a paddy, reaming in muck hole, and「bit filling a mouth orifice」depicts DETAINING the head, HOLD IN ONE PLACE, FASTENED, CONFINE, KEEP the animal focused and working while plowing into soil. Scholars say that the top elements were a「mouth bit」(戼) for cattle or yak, or water buffalo, or a gonorrhea patient to bite down on to prevent「rowdy screaming and hollering accusations with erection and rod movements.」
In some glyphs and with some fonts (for example, 鎦), the top elements are drawn as「slit, passageway to the ovaries, bunny」(卯), which is significant when considering the lower element as a filled muck hole and the need to CONTROL MOVEMENT, DETAIN, HOLD IN ONE PLACE, FASTEN, CONFINE, REMAIN, STAY with the subject in this case (see the glyph meaning「sequence」番). Normally, sane folks will STOP AT, GO NO FURTHER THAN the anus once access has been achieved, since tonguing, tit-fucking, and vaginal intercourse subsequently during the same session are considered by some to be unpleasant, with added meanings of「to prevent, to suppress, to hold back, to relieve, to dissuade, to forbid, to prohibit exiting.」…although, subsequent use of no-longer-integrated feet likely did not present the same problems until the client changed, which was another reason for the popularity of no-longer-integrated feet, and that may be the true meaning of the emphasis point in the top-left element: TO STAY AND REMAIN WHEN NORMALLY ONE WOULD NOT. See 溜
Nevertheless, with all due respect to the scholars, the elements also are「repeated raised leg, dripping」with「reaming, erection in no-longer-integrated foot」「filling that orifice, muck hole」which describe DETAINING a service provider, HOLD IN ONE PLACE, FASTENED, CONFINE, REMAIN WITH and STAY, KEEP from escaping by any means necessary, and continuing to ream in one place or another, KEEPING the animal focused and working after plowing into soil.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve
Japanese EDRDG: detain, fasten, halt, stop
Unihan extended: stop, halt; stay, detain, keep
Used within names (nanori)
とめ
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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 221 entries
Chinese usage: 166 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 16 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
戼Similar glyphs with related meanings: 50 entries
- Glyph.03354
- Strokes: 10
- jlpt-N3 grade_05
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