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KA I ・ KE I
ka ke ru ・ ~ka ke ru ・ ka ke ・ ~ka ke ・ ~ga ke ・ ka ka ru
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Old form clearly referenced one's poultice「netting and soil compaction」(罣) as being a hindrance to the actions about to occur, hence the need for removing the netting and HANGING it (to dry a bit, to prevent it from staining and soiling other items, and so on), SUSPENDING its use by hanging it from a stud protruding from a wall as an example.
Great range of meanings given by external sources for this glyph also suggest the pleasurable use of a buttocks plug and the subsequent billing for services rendered…and in fact the glyph is used as a counter for clusterfucks, engaging in a gamble, risking one's life in exchange for pleasure.
「Talented use of hands」with「buttocks plug」and「flaccid」as in HANG, HANGING something on a peg, some sort of an ACTION NOT YET COMPLETED or literally HANGING OUT OF something such as an anus, TO BE ONLY PARTWAY IN (as compared to the modern vernacular: 'all in babe'). Highlights of meanings include: hang, connected (hitched together), apply (hang upon), costs and expenses (hung costs), payment on account (hanging balance), depend (hung up on), meeting with someone (hang around), consult with (hang with), entrust (leave hanging), require time (hang time), about to begin to do, to actually begin to do, half-finished (as in, a hung jury), sit on something (hang your backside), sprinkle over, and so on and so forth: fly now, pay later.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; to hitch; classifier for sets or clusters of objects
Japanese EDRDG: hang, suspend, depend, arrive at, tax, pour
Unihan extended: hang, suspend; suspense
Used within names (nanori)
かけ
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: 653 entries
Chinese usage: 55 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 54 entries
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