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「Tree」with「performs」as a BEAM, PILLAR, LARGE HEAVY LOG. Referring to the large WOODEN BOOMS or YARDARMS that crossed the mast of a sailing ship, and also, the CROSSBEAMS of a roof. A PILLAR, COLUMN or vertical support.
Columnar concept is now associated with a COLUMN OF NUMBERS, specifically the「places」in arithmetic which designate the next ORDER OF MAGNITUDE, or a LOGARITHMIC relationship. As an example using the base-10 counting system (that's what most folks today use most often, when not programming computers and such), the digit of a number that is furthest to the right indicates the「ones place」with the digit to the left of that indicating the「tens place」and to the left of that the「hundreds place」next the「thousands place」and so on ad infinitum. Note that each succeeding column to the left is ten times larger (i.e.,「base-10」) than the digit place to its right, a relationship that is termed「logarithmic」or an「order of magnitude」change: that is what this glyph depicts most often today, at least for mathematicians and bean counters.
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: pole plate; purlin (cross-beam in roof); ridge-pole; cangue (stocks to punish criminals)
Japanese: column, beam, girder, crossbeam, spar, yard, digit, decade, order of magnitude, overflow
Unihan extended: cross-beams of roof
EDRDG: beam; girder; spar; unit or column (accounting)
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: 34 entries
Chinese usage: 9 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 31 entries
- Glyph.03438
- Strokes: 10
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