Login
Welcome! Introduction
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.
BA I
na ko u do
Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]
「Let loose then gasp with memory loss」refers to inhaling with breath held then exhaling whilst toking herb, and yes, the fading short-term memory was something everybody understood from personal experience.
The NEWS MEDIA that often「conveniently forget the facts」with biased and selective reporting practices and editors (so-called 'fake' news), but with reporters who smile at you all the time anyway, no matter what is being reported…
A spiritual MEDIUM between gods and humans who creates the facts as the session moves along. A divine service-providing「female sweetly smiling presuming upon a woody, or, whom a woody is presuming upon」with one or both parties conveniently forgetting to state all the facts. And so on.
Someone who trades in sexual services, an INTERMEDIARY, or the pimp (male or female) providing short-term rentals of service providers. In the old days of China, this position was often undertaken by a shaman who purchased untrained raw material, no-longer-integrated the feet bones and bound them, began work-in-process schooling of the arts, and then either sold the finished asset to a wealthy merchant or lord, or, rented the meat for short-term use by clients. Perhaps the foot-dis-integrating task is why today these folks are still referred to as BROKERS.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: medium; intermediary; matchmaker; go-between; abbr. for 媒體|媒体 , media, esp. news media
Japanese EDRDG: mediator, go-between
Unihan extended: go-between, matchmaker; medium
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?
(More...)
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: 57 entries
Chinese usage: 58 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 5 entries
- Glyph.06073
- Strokes: 12 ~ 11
- jlpt-N2 grade_08
Agree? Disagree? Express your opinion by posting a comment.
This publication has included material from the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
This publication has included material from the JMdict (EDICT, etc.) dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.
This publication has included material from the Unicode Character Database. Copyright © 1991-2016 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. Distributed under these Terms of Use.