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tsu ke ru ・ ~tsu ke ru ・ ~dzu ke ru ・ tsu ke ・ tsu ke~ ・ ~tsu ke
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Taking a person's pulse entailed holding them by the arm with fingers inside, just above the elbow, a common way to ATTACH yourself to someone else (as in, grabbing hold to accost them as you firmly request payment?).
「Person with a squeezing grip」who is obliged to and must therefore MAKE A PAYMENT for the services provided, who has ATTACHED something to his own member appendage, ADHERING. Note these specific additional meanings support such a case: a physical impression to remain imprinted, extracted soup base, to cling, to possess, to haunt, to be settled, to be sensed, to be lucky, billing, bill of sale, payment invoice, credit, sound produced by striking clappers, to handle, to submit, to glue, to fasten, to wear, to put on, to make an entry in a journal, to bring alongside, to load, accessory, appendage, supplement, excuse, and so on.
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 pay; to hand over to
Japanese: dated, date of effect, furnished with, including, attached to, impression, appearance, luck, sociality, under, assistant, soup base, to be attached, to be connected with, to adhere, to stick, to cling, to remain imprinted, to scar, to stain, to dye, to bear, to be acquired, to increase, to take root, to accompany, to attend, to follow, to study with, to side with, to belong to, to possess, to haunt, to be lit, to be lighted, to be settled, to be resolved, to be decided, to be given, to be sensed, to be perceived, to be lucky, to become, bill, bill of sale, payment invoice, tab, credit, contact move, direct attack to an enemy stone, sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki, letter, reason, motive, pretext, one's fortune, one's luck, fixed, external, to affix, to append, to attach, to entrust, to refer, to handle, to submit, to join, to add, to glue, to fasten, to sew on, to apply, to furnish, to wear, to put on, to keep a diary, to make an entry, to appraise, to set, to bring alongside, to place, to shadow, to load, to give, to establish, to turn on, to have, to be in a state, to be in luck, to direct someone toward …, addition, accessory, appendage, supplement, appendix, complement, excuse
Unihan extended: give, deliver, pay, hand over; entrust
EDRDG: adhere; attach; refer to; append
Used within names (nanori)
つけ
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: 1247 entries
Chinese usage: 95 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 34 entries
- Glyph.00448
- Strokes: 05
- jlpt-N3 grade_04
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