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Gifts「increasing wealth」depict expensive items that are given at congratulatory occasions, such as weddings. An expression of CONGRATULATIONS represented today by a gift, usually of cash in Japan. Note that the upper elements depict the additional strength acquired after the addition of another orifice (that is, the「power an orifice has」is to increase, add to, when joining in to participate) known as the Coolidge Effect, which is always a cause for CONGRATULATIONS, it might seem. Monogamy and one-partner-at-a-time thinking are relatively recent social mores considering the 200,000 year span of humanity's existence. Both male and female humans formerly were involved with multiple partners most all of the time, so adding another one bonobo-style was commonplace.
This glyph's antonym (貧) of 'poverty, meager, impoverished, a situation of poor quality' consists of 'rightly dividing good and evil, an understanding of fleshpots, wealth, and the goal of emissions' that suggests immoderation and a lack of self-control can lead to poverty, rather than the bland life of never having any fun at all.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to congratulate
Japanese EDRDG: congratulations, joy
Unihan extended: congratulate; send present
Used within names (nanori)
か ・ のり ・ よし ・ より
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 47 entries
Chinese usage: 40 entries
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