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RI TSU ・ RI
ku ri ・ o no no ku
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「Dripping orifice with screwing emissions, woody」: one's initial experiences with sex, other than when alone, are often accompanied by some shuddering. Humans of both sexes experiencing sex with another human for the first few times often tremble uncontrollably, and not from cold.
Today, this glyph is used to depict Castanea sativa or sweet chestnuts, and not horse chestnuts that are not generally eaten any longer. In Chinese, this glyph fundamentally means TREMBLING, SHUDDERING, SHIVERING from fear, due to the methods needed for harvesting…sweet chestnuts do not always fall from the tree when ripe, so each tree needs to be forcibly SHAKEN in order to loosen the nuts until they fall, normally by someone up in the tree SHAKING the branches who may also fall along with the nuts.
Formerly though, the top element as「sticky fluid dripping down」and「something of value, essential」over「twisting emissions」in traditional fonts, and「plant, tree」in modern fonts represent horse chestnuts that are covered with sticky fluid:「Horse Chestnut Bud: The 'shine' on the bud is the sticky sap」
[ https://herbsociety.org.uk/kh-hedgerow-to-kitchen-horse-chestnut.htm 2012-08-04, with images ]
Glyph depicts「plant that was essential」in order to remain alive throughout the long winters: the HORSE CHESTNUT, high in vitamin C that prevents scurvy. Horse chestnuts:「Aesculus seeds were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about 4 millennia, until 300AD. Aesculus species are woody plants from 4 to 36m tall (depending on species), and have stout shoots with resinous, often sticky, buds…」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus 2012-08-03 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: afraid; trembling; chestnut
Japanese EDRDG: chestnut
Unihan extended: chestnut tree, chestnuts
Used within names (nanori)
くる ・ りっ
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: 57 entries
Chinese usage: 33 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 14 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 23 entries
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- Strokes: 10
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