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While some scholars feel these elements together (「red and head whacking, or, rod again and again with head of rod whacking, stroking」) suggest foregoing a beating, it seems that the PARDON, FORGIVENESS comes after the beating has begun and perhaps anger subsides for some reason, such as the death of the victim (「grave, tomb, plum pulp with stream of emissions」).「Red」is associated with rage, beaten skin, and blood. Modern usage indicates the punishment has begun but not fully administered, maybe from the idea that blood was drawn while beating the person, so that the beating stopped abruptly and then a PARDON, FORGIVENESS, AMNESTY followed. Then again, a PARDON or FORGIVENESS might only be extended after the subject has been「beaten and whacked until a bloody red pulp of unmoving but still living flesh」having received full punishment…many species of plums contain BLOOD-RED PULP and plenty of juice, appearing very similar to human flesh that has been split open by a rod strike.
Summary of dynastic China legal philosophy:「'Only an intelligent ruler is capable of applying heavy punishments to light offenses. If light offenses carry heavy punishments, one can imagine what will be done against a serious offense. Thus, the people will not dare to break the laws.'…Trials and Chinese courts of law are conducted by torture. …During the course of the trial, the prisoner is asked a great many leading questions which have a tendency to criminate him. Should his answer be evasive, torture is at once resorted to…' The form of torture is to wind and twist the arms around a pole whilst the accused is beaten, with the torture increasing in the event that the accused 'persists in declaring his innocence.'」
[ https://prezi.com/ju1nonzljpiu/the-beginning-of-legalism/ 2023-05-17 ]
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to pardon (a convict)
Japanese EDRDG: pardon, forgiveness
Unihan extended: forgive, remit, pardon
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: 12 entries
Chinese usage: 13 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 5 entries
- Glyph.04688
- Strokes: 11
- jlpt-N2 grade_08
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