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ク
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Kun-yomi
かね ・ かねざし ・ さしがね
ka ne ・ ka ne za shi ・ sa shi ga ne

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DISEASED PENIS and WARNING TO MAINTAIN DISTANCE AWAY FROM, VAST, ON EACH SIDE OF ORIFICE
「Diseased penises」and「orifice that must be avoided」describes the RULES and REGULATIONS placed in effect in order to slow down the endemic spread of syphilitic pox or gonorrhea within a specific area in which sexually transmitted diseases exceeded a proportion of the populace, as health quarantines on sex, REGULATIONS within the prostitution districts, and of shamans, brothels, the caves of wonders, bath houses, roadside quickie blow job stands, opium huts, and so on. When a PATTERN of illness was discovered in an area, and those illnesses fit the known PATTERNS of lesions, chancres, dripping gleet and bloody pus, pox pustules, genital warts, herpetic blisters, fishy smells, etc., then an area was red-lined on the map and CARVED out as were the diseased body tissues with discharges, inspection gateways with walled districts and quarantines as the RULES and REGULATIONS, in which prohibitions were announced and enforced by patrolling brute squads. Or, we can accept the scholarly explanation of「arrow square」as in making all arrows fit a standard pattern…moreover, since when have arrows been square?
In its original parlance, describing a thing or situation as "smells fishy" did refer to having probable cause for extreme doubt and suspicion, but most folks do not realize why innocuous fish are so maligned in this manner. A fishy or pungent-smelling discharge from the vagina or penis may signify the presence of an infection, so caution was advised...and still is today.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: carpenter's square; rule; regulation; pattern; to carve
Japanese EDRDG: ruler, carpenter's square
Unihan extended: carpenter's square, ruler, rule

Used within names (nanori)
のり ・ つね ・ ただし

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 11 entries


Chinese usage: 36 entries


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