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o chi ru ・ o chi ・ o to su
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Refers to spending one's money and time in a VILLAGE that is not some remote place way out in the countryside, but a special district, zone, quarter within a larger city or town, often in the old days marked by surrounding walls and gateways as checkpoints, restricted entryways, a self-contained city area as a separate community having its own specialized business establishments that cater to a specific kind or class of patron, its own local laws, government regulations, customs, and even language at times that apply within an administrative division at the local government level, patrolled by police.
Some say that「plants, flow from each spread hole」may be referring to a wild onion plant, with water slowly escaping from pores in the leaves. Describes gradual WITHERING, WEAKENING, WILTING and DROOPING that will occur if water within the plant is not replenished via the roots. Eventually, the leaves, fruit, blossoms of any plant will DECLINE and then DROP OFF during a drought, with the OUTCOME certain if there is no rain. OVERLOOKED, OMITTED, BE DROPPED may imply that someone forgot to give water to these plants. Simply stated, plants use water in the process of photosynthesis, using energy from sunlight to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, and split carbon dioxide into carbon and oxygen, releasing oxygen as a by-product while converting the carbon and hydrogen atoms into carbohydrates. The carbohydrates become part of the plant, while water and oxygen are released from pores in the leaves, the primary sites of photosynthesis.
Meanings of「hamlet, village」(里, 邑, 村, ⻏) are depicted by various methods of causing an emerging shaft to wither, droop, drop in a post-ejaculatory state.
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: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement; to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind
Japanese: slip, omission, outcome, final result, the end, punch line, dropping, losing, missing item, to drop, to lose, to let fall, to shed, to cast, to pour in, to leave behind, to clean off, to remove, to spend money at a certain place, to secretly let escape, to reject, to fail, to defeat, to worsen, to speak badly of, to fall down, to crash, to degenerate, to degrade
Unihan extended: fall, drop; net income, surplus
EDRDG: fall; drop; come down; village; hamlet
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 553 entries
Chinese usage: 259 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 26 entries
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- Strokes: 12
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