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「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
Note that if tōfu smells or tastes sour, it really has spoiled.
Guy, slave, manservant, fellow, samurai page meanings are derived from the fact that samurai used their page boys in the same manner as they might have used a female crotch:「From religious circles [i.e., Buddhists], same-sex love spread to the warrior (samurai) class, where it was customary for a boy in the wakashū age category to undergo training in the martial arts by apprenticing to a more experienced adult man. The man was permitted, if the boy agreed, to take the boy as his lover until he came of age. This relationship, often formalized in a 'brotherhood contract,' was expected to be exclusive, with both partners swearing to take no other (male) lovers. This practice, along with clerical pederasty [i.e., Buddhists], developed into the codified system of age-structured homosexuality….」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan 2012-07-02 ]
「In the past few years, police in the United States say they have noticed that traffickers are making their mark on the girls like never before. It's all part of the gang culture that has taken over the sex trade in the streets of America. In a disgusting display of dehumanization, the traffickers brand or tattoo the girls to show they own them. The marks on the girls tell their story on the street.」
「Some girls have several different tattoos. Each time they are worked by a different trafficker, they are branded with different labels. Sometimes it's an old-fashioned money-bags image. Sometimes it's diamonds. Sometimes it's a trafficker's name across the forehead. Sometimes it's an ATM etched on the skin near their groin. We've even seen a barcode put on a girl's wrist, like an item in a grocery store.」
「America has seen these marks before. Slave masters used branding as a way to mark the African American men, women, and children they bought and sold. It's 2015, and slavery is still alive. It's just taken a different form.」
[ https://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/09/us/freedom-project-branding/index.html 2023-05-19 ]
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: slave
Japanese: he, she, him, her, retainer, servant, derogatory suffix, humble suffix, fellow, guy, chap, thing, object, chivalrous man, cubed tōfu, kite shaped like a footman, Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants, enslavement, captive, varlet, I, they, those guys, type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period
Unihan extended: slave, servant
EDRDG: guy; slave; manservant; fellow
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 78 entries
Chinese usage: 48 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 35 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 15 entries
- Glyph.00450
- Strokes: 05 ~ 04
- jlpt-N2 grade_08
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