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CHA KU ・ JA KU
ki ru ・ ~gi ・ ki se ru ・ ~ki se ・ tsu ku ・ tsu ke ru
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Nevertheless,「goal of eyes under sheep's tail」or as some fonts display:「eyeing ewe with an erection.」…In old Chinese meaning TO CATCH an illness, an ACTION STILL IN PROGRESS, to WEAR ON ONE'S LOWER BODY AREA, to SUFFER from COMING INTO CONTACT WITH disease that causes a BURNING SENSATION, a「goal with human error」likely a description of anal gonorrhea or syphilis contracted from tupping sheep:「Some men with gonorrhea may have no symptoms at all. However, common symptoms in men include a burning sensation when urinating, or a white, yellow, or green discharge from the penis that usually appears 1 to 14 days after infection. Sometimes men with gonorrhea get painful or swollen testicles…. Symptoms of rectal infection in both men and women may include discharge, anal itching, soreness, bleeding, or painful bowel movements.」
[ https://www.cdc.gov/std/gonorrhea/stdfact-gonorrhea.htm 2012-08-19 ]
WEARING CLOTHING, since after contact and ARRIVAL of infection one must always wear something to conceal it, and likely apply a poultice over the infection or chancres. Note that not all fonts include the left「sliding down」element as a separate stroke, and the homosexual overtones may be related to the「differences at work below sheep's tail」of the related glyph, leading this glyph to be interpreted literally to mean「look with your eyes under the sheep's tail, look before you leap.」Additional meanings are to COVER UP with clothing, APPLY OINTMENT to a festering lesion or chancre, to GILD or APPLY VENEER and cover over what is underneath, to GIVE A BAD NAME or SULLY A REPUTATION, all related to that telltale, awful burning sensation caused by corkscrew demons or the clap.
To successfully navigate oneself to the appropriate portal at the appropriate time. ARRIVE means to reach an intended destination (「eyeing sheep」? ), to achieve success in the performance of a plan or purpose.「Look with your eyes under the sheep's tail before you leap」and thereby ARRIVE at the intended destination, successfully navigating to the intended portal or orifice. Related glyphs share similar fundamental meanings.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply; aspect particle indicating action in progress; to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to fall asleep; to burn; (chess) move; trick; all right!; (dialect) to add
Japanese EDRDG: don, arrive, wear, counter for suits of clothing
Unihan extended: make move, take action
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: 486 entries
Chinese usage: 136 entries
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