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ku sa ru ・ ~ku sa ru ・ ku sa re ru ・ ku sa re ・ ku sa ra su ・ ku sa su
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Upper elements mean「storehouse」and meat that is always stored there (i.e., unable to walk away due to no-longer-integrated feet, as one example) will certainly rot. Meat decay (in part) may have been intended to age the meat and tenderize it, called「curing」likely because the no-longer-integrated feet bones began to「cure」as each service provider aged. Curing meat is still common today, but generally not within large U.S. metropolitan neighborhoods, although sometimes the police do locate curing meat in homes.
Upper elements also mean「…the government…」So that the「meatheads in government」may perhaps have also been counted as TAINTED, ROTTEN, WORTHLESS, DECAYED, SPOILED, DECOMPOSING SLOWLY, PUTRID, FESTERING, and so on. Clearly, the service providers with no-longer-integrated feet meat working for the shaman within the caverns of wonder, and the meat of clients who frequented there, were soon DECOMPOSING SLOWLY, PUTRID, FESTERING, and so on as well. In China, the government tried to control「caves of sticky meat」caused by sexually transmitted disease by implementing various measures, such as building and patrolling small and great walls, an endeavor common in China as a simplistic solution to a complicated problem. Failing to extract coagulated jism from within one's meat on a regular basis will cause it to FESTER, become PUTRID, and has been suggested as a cause of prostate cancer.
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: decay; rotten
Japanese: to speak ill of, rottenness, decay, corruption, to rot, to go bad, to decay, to spoil, to fester, to decompose, to turn sour, to corrode, to weather, to crumble, to become useless, to blunt, to weaken, to become depraved, to be degenerate, to be morally bankrupt, to be corrupt, to be depressed, to be dispirited, to feel discouraged, to feel down, indicates scorn or disdain for another's action, to lose a bet, to be drenched, to become sopping wet, rotting, spoiling, decaying, corroding, worthless, paltry, contemptible, more than one can possibly use, countless, to burn, rolling in
Unihan extended: rot, decay, spoil; rotten
EDRDG: rot; decay; sour
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: 114 entries
Chinese usage: 67 entries
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