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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melia_japonica 2013-08-16 ]
Wrinkled and almost white fruits finally fall into the dirt, not so unlike unneeded harem concubines of a lord (see right element). Fruits are poisonous to humans if eaten in quantity, not unlike harem concubines of a lord…'everything in moderation' being one key to happiness.
「Besides the problem of toxicity, its usefulness as a shade tree in the United States is diminished by its tendency to sprout where unwanted and to turn sidewalks into dangerously slippery surfaces when the fruits fall.」
[ ibidem ]
Not unlike harem concubines of a lord.「A diluted infusion of leaves…has been used in the past to induce uterus relaxation.」
[ ibidem ] uterine relaxation may be required during fetus delivery with complications, to delay the onset of labor for some reason. Describes「slipping and sliding with feet」that is clearly depicted (see similar glyphs) as a sandal or a slipper, a sandal-for-woody slipping in slippery feet.
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: Melia japonica
Japanese: chinaberry, Japanese bead tree, light purple outside, green inside, type of garment layering color scheme, worn in April and May, Indian sandalwood
Unihan extended: Melia japonica
EDRDG: Japanese bead tree
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 3 entries
Chinese usage: 2 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 25 entries
- Glyph.07352
- Strokes: 13
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