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  • Glyph.04599
  • Strokes: 11
  • grade_10


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Mincho:
Gothic:
淨
淨

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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ジョウ ・ セイ
JO U ・ SE I
Kun-yomi
きよ(める ・ きよ(い
ki yo me ru ・ ki yo i

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Meanings of elements
FLUIDS and REPEATED BOBBING OF HEAD WHILE GRASPING ROD WITH HAND
Formerly meaning SOMETHING CLEANED in order to RESOLVE an underlying source of a problem, that of spreading infection, which became RITUAL CLEANSING as MANDATORY WASHING both before and after visiting the shaman's shrines and temples to EXORCISE the demons that may be attached to one's genitals (simple folks were taught that demons and curses were the causes of disease). Recall that the shaman peddled religion, sex, medical and soothsaying services, and this glyph seems to combine them all. Accounting and business term NET OF as it refers to one influence「washing」its opposite (a wash sale of stock shares, gains and losses, debits and credits, assets and amortization, receivables and uncollectible allowances, net working capital, and so on), the positive with the negative influences, and with only the greater difference of the two remaining.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc)
Japanese EDRDG: pure, clean, unspoiled
Unihan extended: pure, clean, unspoiled

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? (More...) 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.


Chinese usage: 31 entries


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