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yo u ・ yo i ・ yo
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「The completed mating in chickens is the culmination of a sequence of behaviours. The rooster will initiate mating by exhibiting courtship behaviour: dropping one wing and dancing in a circle (the lowered wing will be on the inside of the circle dance). The hen will crouch (dip her head and body) to indicate receptiveness to the male. The rooster will then mount the hen and grab her comb, neck feathers, or the skin on the back of her head or neck to help hold onto the hen's back.」
[ https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/natural-mating-and-breeding 2023-05-17 ]
Clearly, that squeezing grip on the back of the head and neck, and those unbalanced spinning motions going down into the dirt like an airplane crashing just before you get totally blitzed, describe BEING DRUNK, DIZZY or DAZED, and the THREAT, RISK of crashing as well as cock copulation. While soldiers may become drunk, so might anyone else, and soldiers (or, most likely,「sailors」in this case) are not special in this regard.
Nevertheless, the modern elements of「booze」and「soldier, low-ranking person」mean DRUNKENNESS, or「alcohol with spurting and spinning」that would clearly mean INEBRIATED. Right element here can mean「end, die」perhaps finishing off (「killing」) the whole bottle of booze. Also「threat, risk」as alcohol was often used as an anesthesia (on the battlefield, too) and carried a high risk of death from overdose, not to mention the problems actually associated with drunken soldiers and sailors.
「Bent arm」lifts the「wine jar」but leaves you「twisting」as three sheets in the wind (a「sheet」as used here is an old nautical term meaning a chain or line each tied to the four corners of a sail in order to fasten it. Three sheets in the wind meant a twisting, loose sail that caused the sail and the vessel to lurch like a「drunken sailor」). Top-right element resembles the element for「sail, stretched skin」but with three loose corners and「spurting」as another expression from Chinese that migrated back to England after pushing opium on the Chinese citizenry became illegal and the drug lords returned home.
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: Japanese variant of 醉
Japanese: drunkenness, intoxication, to get drunk, to become intoxicated, to feel sick, to become nauseated, to be elated, to be exalted, to be spellbound, to be in raptures, to inebriate, to intoxicate, to charm, to enchant, drunkard
Unihan extended: intoxicated, drunk; addicted to
EDRDG: drunk; feel sick; poisoned; elated; spellbound
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: 98 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 8 entries
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- Strokes: 11
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