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A「cavern for woody group of buddies as similar types with hand」also depicts RUBBING STALKS BY HAND in an effort to STROKE and EXTRACT THREADS, as times causing some CHAFING, ABRASION when enjoyed to excess, a long-established bonobo and human undertaking as a social medium, networking, extending one's circle of friends, following the lead of others, and so on.
「Hemp in hand」such as when not passing a doobie, bogarting while with friends, will cause some CHAFING, ABRASION of the relationships among the group circle.
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 rub
Japanese: to pat, to stroke, to rub off, to polish, to grind, to graze, to scrape, to be equal to, to be about to reach, to chafe, to strike, to file, to frost, to lose, to forfeit, to squander one's money, chafing, sore, scratch, mark, rubbing together, blister, to scrub, to draw near, to press, to wear out, to become worn, to lose one's innocence, to become sly
Unihan extended: rub, scour, grind; friction
EDRDG: chafe; rub; polish; grind; scrape
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: 89 entries
Chinese usage: 135 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
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