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KYO U ・ GO U
tsu yo i ・ tsu yo ma ru ・ tsu yo me ru ・ shi i ru ・ ko wa i
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「Unbound cloths」used for foot-binding or to hold a poultice that have become「loose and dripping, stinky」and full of「insect larvae, maggots」will have a STRONG stinky odor, MORE THAN IS NORMALLY THE CASE, and a very PERSISTENT stench that is difficult to wash away.
「Arched copulating snakes」also are PERSISTENT, STUBBORN, and STRONG. Snakes have vestigial hind legs, claw-like appendages that are held inside around the cloaca, the orifice used for copulation, called「anal spurs」barbs with which the female snake STRONGLY attaches herself to the skin of the male snake during copulation. The male snake possesses the same inner barbs but also has forked hemipenes, a「short leg with two sides」normally held inside the body, and also attaches barbs to the inside walls of the female's cloaca, the snake's equivalent of a vagina.
Hemipenes are two half-open penises (yes, two penises, and some snakes have four penile heads, MORE THAN IS NORMALLY THE CASE), with semen troughs exposed, therefore the coupling must be MORE THAN IS NORMALLY THE CASE for copulation to succeed.
Some scholars suggest this depicts a horsefly, with a sucking proboscis that literally slices through animal hide in scissor-like motions that are piercing and painful, enabling it to penetrate a horse's (or a human's) thick hide and suck its blood, a very STRONG and particularly STUBBORN fly. Note that the old form used「orifice」(强) as either a snake cloaca, or, a sucking mouth, in addition to the listed possibility of「unbound poultice or foot cloths with stench and maggots.」
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: to force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort; strong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强; stubborn; unyielding
Japanese: a little over, a little more than, powerhouse, one of the biggest, one of the most powerful, tough, stiff, hard, inflexible, obstinate, stubborn, strong, mighty, potent, resistant, resilient, durable, determined, hearty, severe, strength, not necessarily, not uncommon, forte, strong point, by force, to force, to compel, to coerce, show of courage, bluff, to cry sour grapes, to bluff, to whistle in the dark, to pretend to be tough, tenacious, strongly hoping or requesting, to stiffen, to become stiff, to get strong, to gain strength, to strengthen, to emphasize, emphasis
Unihan extended: strong, powerful, energetic
EDRDG: strong
Used within names (nanori)
すね
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: 334 entries
Chinese usage: 156 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 5 entries
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强Similar glyphs with related meanings: 6 entries
- Glyph.04437
- Strokes: 11
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