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RA KU
ka ra mu ・ ka ra ma ru
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Alternatively, also as a SMALL NET,「silk thread descend from orifice」describes the process of a caterpillar spinning its cocoon, in which a single sticky and stinky thread more than half a mile long is woven into hundreds of thousands of RELATED figure eight shapes, ENTWINING, CONNECTING, and INVOLVING all those loops LINKING into a NETWORK, as a place where the TIED UP caterpillar larva can metamorphose into an adult moth. The actual motions of the caterpillar spinning the cocoon are graphically depicted by the elements「thread from head orifice between spread feet」as the animal spits raw silk from a spinneret and places it using its two spread front feet and mouth. A condition in which「each loop of silk thread」is stuck together in contact with all the other threads, all ENTWINED together.
In Chinese, this glyph is also associated with「loose stinky raw threads dripping」and preventing rancid stains from appearing on the front of one's trousers, by encasing the penis, scrotum and gonads into a reticular sack, in which poultices and bandages could be contained and held firmly in the correct position. Perhaps then elements are「threads in mouth-like shape to hold crotch head」similar to a codpiece, that was fundamental for each royal and dignitary. In a pinch, the net-mesh sack also functioned effectively as a dog muzzle when tightly tied. The shape resembled a spider's WEB, a NETWORK of sticky threads used to TUCK IN cloth bandages much as a hairnet holds in hair, or even resembled a caterpillar's cocoon with live squirming meat inside. Further, if you want to NETWORK and BE CONNECTED with a dignitary, then get him laid as「ejaculations fundamental in each orifice」for a dignitary and a primary method of receiving favor.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: net-like; small net
Japanese EDRDG: entwine, coil around, become caught in
Unihan extended: enmesh, wrap around; web, net
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: 74 entries
Chinese usage: 54 entries
- Glyph.06055
- Strokes: 12
- jlpt-N3 grade_08
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