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SO U ・ SU
ma do ・ te n ma do ・ ke mu da shi
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「Pit hole, cavity」as holes dug into the ground or the side of a hill that were houses in the good old days (see 䆓), over「orifice」(marked on its top side) with「gushing」(悤) inside that might depict a hole back to the surface, other than the door, used as a means of VENTILATION or as a CHIMNEY to vent and funnel smoke and/or inadvertent nocturnal flatulence, or those particularly heavy, difficult to manage odors which do tend to accumulate when the ice box has no ice in August.
Original「gushing」element (怱) may as well have been the「net, weave inside spread legs」element that describes gauze used to apply and hold poultices in place onto a diseased and stinking groin. In some fonts,「gushing chunks in crotch netting」morphed into「extremely spread feet」to suggest medical treatment or simple use of someone's crotch, or in some fonts the lower element became「supper meat.」…probably meat leftovers during the age of no refrigeration.
After folks moved out of covered pits as a general style for housing,「stench」and「heart」were added (some scholars say) as a further reference to the「sweet smell of fresh air」but more likely just explained the need for the VENT as stemming from what those elements literally depict, a shortened and bent penis randomly flinging rancid gleet:「A much higher percentage of men with an unpleasant smell were found to have gonorrhea compared to other men, researchers from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia revealed in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The authors explained that adult males with gonorrhea had a putrid smell, as far as many adult females were concerned.」
[ https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238985 2023-05-17 ] …apparently no one bothered to ask the adult males how the adult females smelled, or, none of the adult males minded or noticed the odors emitted by the adult females. Note that「frontal lobe of human brain」above「heart, penis flinging drops」is also a glyph meaning to「breathe」as a reminder to think about the consequences of spewing gleet and what effect that will have on the surrounding air quality. Associated modern meaning of SCHOOL is maybe due to「agitated, hasty」students staring out the same WINDOW of a classroom due to tedium, or more likely in the good old days describing the place where many students acquired the disease in the first place, and then congregated.
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: variant of 窗
Japanese: window, viewing through a, passing through a window, going through a window, doing through a window
Unihan extended: window
EDRDG: window; pane
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: 77 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 9 entries
- Glyph.04472
- Strokes: 11
- jlpt-N3 grade_06
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