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リョウ
RYO U
Kun-yomi
はか(る
ha ka ru

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Meanings of elements
ON THE VERGE, ON THE EDGE, AT THE BRINK with MEASUREMENT TESTING FOR INCLUSION, THE BIRTH PLACE, INTERNAL LINING OF SOIL PATH, AREA OF SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION
…or: FEUDAL LORD BRAGGART, CHUTZPAH GALL, HUSBAND, BROTHEL CLIENT, FEMALE ROLE, DAWNING, AN AWAKENING with BIRTH ORIFICE, PROSTITUTION DISTRICT, AREA OF SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION, MEASUREMENT TESTING FOR INCLUSION
…or: ROD, INDICATES EXTENT with TONGUING IN MOUTH, ON THE EDGE, AT THE BRINK and PRICK within ORIFICE
Modern elements appear as「female role, rod with tonguing mouth」with「prick within an orifice, measurement」or「the place where birthing occurs」or「female role, inside soil walls」as in an ESTIMATED MEASURE of AMOUNT, VISCOSITY, DOSE, VOLUME, WEIGHT, MAGNITUDE, TEMPERATURE DEGREES or what have you that is related to her body, and not likely referring literally to the clay content of the muck in the backyard rice paddy. Frankly, the average adult male human paired with the average adult female human will most likely not encounter any problem related to CAPACITY or VOLUME of what a particular orifice can hold. But on the contrary, an adult male paired with a child of either sex will most likely encounter a gland-to-orifice ratio that exceeds rated capacity, so this became a problem to be considered by the dynastic Chinese often enough that this glyph now represents HOW MUCH CAN THAT HOLD? WILL IT ALL FIT INSIDE? (「rod with tonguing mouth and soil walls」)
 ESTIMATES of CAPACITY, VOLUME, VISCOSITY, HEATED TEMPERATURE and so on also relate directly to an adult female caregiver for a male child in dynastic China, be she his birth mother or a nanny:
 「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977). In 19th century London the going price for a virginal, 12-year-old girl, of good background, was reported to be 400 pounds (Bullough, 1964).」
  [ https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01 ] 
 In dynastic China:「A male child of any age, even before birth, could by parental arrangement take an adult woman as a wife. The purpose could be to consolidate family status and relationship, or simply to have someone to help taking care of the child. After marriage, the couple slept in one bed like all other husbands and wives. No one would pay attention to what type of sexual relationship they might have and when. In the normal course of events, they would begin with those sex plays they were capable of and wanted, until one day, when the child was old enough to desire and do it, they had coitus. After the boy grew still older, he usually took a second wife closer to his age, but he would continue to keep, love and respect the first wife. Some writers very vehemently question the capacity of children to give valid consent to sexual activity with adults. Despite their arguments, to the Chinese - who are particularly conscious of the importance and priority of social (and hence adult) values - the focus of discussions on the child consent issue in pedophilic activities is blatantly irrelevant and hypocritical.」
  [ https://www.ipce.info/library/web-article/pedophilia-chinese-perspective 2019-10-22 ] 
 Perhaps even one's own mother will perform these measurements:「In Japan, it is not uncommon for mothers to sexually stimulate their children to soothe them so they will sleep. There have been stories in the press of mother-son incest arising from the strong nature of this relationship in Japan and the important maternal role of ensuring the son succeeds at school. According to Hideo Tokuoka, 'When Americans think of incest, they think of fathers and daughters. In Japan one thinks of mothers and sons' due to the extensive media coverage of mother-son incest there.」
  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest 2012-08-21 ] 

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: capacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; abbr. for 量詞|量词, classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word; to measure
Japanese: quantity, amount, volume, portion, measurements, weighing, to measure, to weigh, to survey, to time, to conjecture, to infer, to surmise
Unihan extended: measure, quantity, capacity
EDRDG: quantity; measure; weight; amount; consider; estimate; surmise

Used within names (nanori)
かず

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? (More...) 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.



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Chinese usage: 398 entries


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