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DA I ・ TA I
u te na ・ wa re ・ tsu ka sa
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A raised STAGE or PLATFORM as a heavy BASE would hopefully not be swept away by floodwaters or severe winds. A few soldier guys on a secure platform from which to watch for an approaching river flood during and soon after heavy regional rains or a typhoon…perhaps it was, but the original glyph elements depict a raised stage or platform upon which a large audience on all sides could witness those few guys engaging in various forms of engagement, with everyone watching and waiting for the huge discharges…remember at that time and place, homosexuality was common, homosexual love was highly regarded, and everybody cheered when one soldier's discharge catapulted his buddy across the STAGE, PLATFORM. Used as a raised BASE for mounting various war MACHINES with「loose arms that appear as if dripping a long thread, and then flinging chunks」such as CATAPULTS. Note this is likely the source of the English word 'dais,' and the described actions uncannily resemble the ritualistic motions of sumō wrestling performed on a raised staging area.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: desk; platform; typhoon; platform; stage; terrace; stand; support; desk; station; broadcasting station; classifier for vehicles or machines; Taiwan (abbr.); (classical) you (in letters); platform; Taiwan (abbr.)
Japanese EDRDG: pedestal, a stand, counter for machines and vehicles
Unihan extended: platform; unit; term of address
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: 330 entries
Chinese usage: 353 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 38 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 25 entries
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- Strokes: 05
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