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  • Glyph.00634
  • Strokes: 06
  • grade_09


MingLiU:
Mincho:
Gothic:
而
而

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ジ ・ ニ
JI ・ NI
Kun-yomi
しこ(うして ・ しか(して ・ しか(も ・ しか(れども ・ すなわち ・ なんじ ・ しかるに
shi ko u shi te ・ shi ka shi te ・ shi ka mo ・ shi ka re do mo ・ su na wa chi ・ na n ji

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Meanings of elements
ARRAY of VERTICAL within SPREAD LEGS
…or: ROD with emphasis on SPREAD LEGS and with STRAIGHT, VERTICAL STROKES
「Array, segment, rod」with emphasis on「spread legs」and「straight vertical」strokes to indicate PUBIC HAIR that appears with the onset of puberty, not only in the region of the groin and perianus, but also in the armpits, periareolar regions, chest, and as facial hair: a BEARD. Note that Asian pubic hair is fairly straight, and not nearly as curly as that of other genetically-related groups of human beings. In older glyphs, seems to depict the long hairs of a straight BEARD that was virtually demanded of men to grow in Chinese society (one penalty of criminals was that the beard was forcibly shaven, so for a man not to appear as a criminal to others, he needed to grow his beard). The beard was grown after puberty, naturally, so this glyph also means AND THEN, FURTHERMORE (continuing stages of growth to adulthood), and grammatical cases of a CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP, STATE OF CHANGE, or CONTRASTS, all associated with puberty and the resulting ability to grow pubic hair, but applied to linguistics:「…because you have a beard, you now have become an adult…」「…you are a man, you therefore must have a beard…」And so on.
A COMB is used to RAKE through beards in order to straighten the individual hairs and dislodge larger chunky bits of food and other detritus: note the similarity with 'gushing, sometimes containing chunks' (勿).

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)
Japanese EDRDG: rake
Unihan extended: and; and then; and yet; but

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.



Japanese vocabulary: 20 entries


Chinese usage: 311 entries


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