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  • Glyph.04648
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  • jlpt-N5 grade_02


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Meanings of elements
SERVICE PROVIDER, MOTIONS of ORIFICE within SPREAD LEGS and with ERECTION within, QUICK MOVEMENTS, STRETCHED TAUT
…or: PENIS inside VAGINA with TIGHT SPRINGY MOTIONS, TENSION, GASPS, ROLLED AND TAUT
…or: STEPS with SLIDING, DRAGGING ACROSS A SURFACE and with ESTROUS CYCLE, CIRCUIT, LAP, FULL CYCLE, ALL THE WAY AROUND, CIRCUMFERENCE, PERIPHERY, WEEK (10-DAY CYCLE OF OLD CHINA), ANIMALS IN HEAT
…or: MOTIONS with FULL CYCLE OF ERECTION and TENSE GASPING with GETTING LUCKY inside SPREAD LEGS
「Motion, steps」「all the way around」as the WEEKLY CYCLE. Note that historically the Chinese observed a ten-day week, three per month with some slight adjustments to maintain conjunction with the lunar cycle, and not a seven-day week. Glyph depicting the tenth day in the cycle (旬) is also related to farm animal estrus cycles and ovulation after ten days of the cycle start. The estrous cycle of many farm animals is an average of 20 days, or one ten-day period to ovulation as breeding day, and another ten-day period to the start of the next cycle. Counting and tracking these ten-day periods for each animal was important to farmers and herders. Without doubt, Chinese farmers and ranchers practiced selective breeding with farm animals, just as lords and emperors practiced selective breeding with humans. With some (but not all) of the farm animal breeding sessions, some artificial insemination methods were employed, such as that depicted by the left element. Of particular interest was the potential of directly inseminating lambs by human beings, but nothing panned out, it seems. (We apologize for the pun: as per ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Arcadian god Pán [Faunus] was a faun, a satyr, and in Egypt, Mendes was the counterpart to Pán: gods of fertility and lust, a ram-human combo if there ever was one…or two. Perhaps they figured it couldn't hurt to try hybridization of those two animal forms (sheep and human). At least they got correct what the idea was god of: lust for copulating with sheep, and the source of the word「panic.」)

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: week; weekly; variant of 周
Japanese EDRDG: week
Unihan extended: week; turn, cycle; anniversary

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 68 entries


Chinese usage: 39 entries


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  • Strokes: 11 ~ 12
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