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JI N ・ SA N
tsu ku su ・ ~tsu ku su ・ ~dzu ku shi ・ ~tsu ku ・ ~dzu ku ・ ~zu ku
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Modern glyph uses elements meaning「prisoner/ slave genitals shackled together」(尺, 睪) with markers for「two.」Two prisoners tied by their genitals might eventually experience EXHAUSTION by simply walking in unison to avoid pulling off one set of genitals, and most certainly if trying to escape due to the difficulty in coordinating their respective movements while hurrying (a modern example may be three-legged sack races).
Alternatively, if one of the bound prisoners becomes EXHAUSTED, with strength ALL USED UP to the FULLEST EXTENT, NO MORE RESERVE, NONE REMAINING and collapses, the result could very well have been the internal division of genitals for him and the「two tied in front and behind by the cojones」so in that situation one's nearby prisoners/ slaves were motivated to assist one another and keep the line moving.
Another modern meaning is to MAKE A FRIEND…the obvious is also true, in that if these prisoners shackled together do not soon BECOME FRIENDS and cooperate, then they will not move at all.
Elements also as「genitals leashed and coagulated, thickening, frigid」that more closely represents the original glyph of「hand on rod, shaft and pulling with multiple emissions and gauze netting used between spread legs for holding a poultice in place to draw out pus from an infected groin」perhaps depicts jerking out the clotted jism, blood, and pus with a bougie multiple times in an effort to promote healing until ALL USED UP to the FULLEST EXTENT, NO MORE RESERVE, NONE REMAINING (don't try that at home, though).
Finally,「genitals taut with two, twice, in a cooling process」as WITHERED, SHRIVELED, ALL USED UP to the FULLEST EXTENT, NO MORE RESERVE, NONE REMAINING suggests two sessions in rapid succession that leaves one drained of energy, and all else.
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: to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to
Japanese: last day, relying entirely on …, using solely …, with the sole purpose of …, based on, end, limit, extremity, altogether, all sorts of, all kinds of, to exhaust, to run out, to devote, to serve, to befriend, to do to exhaustion, to use completely, to use up, to exhaust somebody's civility, to give up, to be used up, to be run out, to be exhausted, to be consumed, to come to an end, unqualified, without exception, to wither, to fade, to shrivel, to pass one's prime, to start deteriorating, to begin to decline, eternal, everlasting, endless, enduring
Unihan extended: exhaust, use up; deplete
EDRDG: exhaust; use up; run out of; deplete; befriend; serve
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: 173 entries
Chinese usage: 100 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 3 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 13 entries
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