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SU U
a ga me ru
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「Mountain」「surrounding from above, deliberately out-of-reach」in a「display」may suggest AWESOME, LOFTY, HIGH LEVEL or suggest eco-religion, Gaia-type folks, etc. Additional meanings of SUBLIME, VENERATE, REVERE, RESPECT all have little to do with physical altitude per se, although there is support for mountain-based religious movements in hermetic Taoism and Buddhism.
Continuing with the sages' love for clever tongue-in-cheek wit, top element was also most likely「penis tip, rod in cavity」with「surrounded from above」in a「display」indicating the SHAMANIST RELIGION, an interpretation confirmed by most any other glyph's dual meanings derived from the combination of elements as SUBLIME, VENERATE, REVERE, RESPECT, and as the source of her wealth.
Reviewing old seal chops employing this glyph reveals that both sides were most often drawn curving up and inward toward the center as would be a retractable fold of skin partially or fully covering the tip of the penis or clitoris, the prepuce, whereas glyphs drawn meaning「mountain」(and actual mountains, too) seldom if ever have sides which curve up and inward, surrounding the peak…a reforming LAVA mound inside a blown crater, a mountain that had ejaculated its contents, perhaps is the closest to being such a mountain.
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: high; sublime; lofty; to esteem; to worship
Japanese: to look up to, to respect, to revere, to worship
Unihan extended: esteem, honor, revere, venerate
EDRDG: adore; respect; revere; worship
Used within names (nanori)
す ・ たか ・ たかし ・ たかむ
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: 25 entries
Chinese usage: 59 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 49 entries
- Glyph.04889
- Strokes: 11
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