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Some sort of「wide open, gushing bubbly sounds with chunks」expanded branches type of「tree.」Both the glyph and pronunciation in Japanese resemble WILLOW. The willow, poplar, and aspen all have「quaking leaves」that twist and turn in the slightest breeze and「flash」in sunlight due to the reverse side of the leaves being a different color, resembling a licking tongue in some ways and gushing bubbles with chunks in other ways as the leaves sometimes dislodge. The twisting leaves create「openings」that allow sunshine to penetrate the branches and all the leaves throughout the tree to photosynthesize at higher rates, and to allow the outer leaves to remain cooler to prevent burning and excessive drying in direct hot sunrays. Note that in the Orient, perhaps due to this very glyph, the「willow world」is used as a euphemism for the daily life of prostitutes, concubines, and 'singing girls' (often, with chunks, and a sweet honeypot or musk-like smell). A DIVA is a highly distinguished female singer, and the word originates from「divine, a goddess, a really good singing girl」who was trained as the apprentice of a divining female, the local shaman witch doctor…「singing girl」is a euphemism for a superb sexual services provider, perhaps since she can use her tongue so well or because she causes her clientele to cry out loud and burst into hollering song. Shamans sold the services of these girls, and sold the girls themselves, too…called 'witch doctors' because they also sold divination services along with sex, and attempted to doctor you up after you contracted a sexually transmitted infectious disease in the 'temple of love.'
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: poplar
Japanese: willow, weeping willow
Unihan extended: willow, poplar, aspen
EDRDG: willow
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: 25 entries
Chinese usage: 55 entries
- Glyph.07245
- Strokes: 13
- jlpt-N2 grade_09
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