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「Soil with muck orifice(s)」as being INSIDE a PARTITION, LOW WALL often made of soil located within a town or city in the old days, used to delineate the red-lined PROSTITUTION districts from other areas, not to neglect any mention of the LOW SOIL WALL as a result of impacting and compacting that occurs with a「prick in muck orifice.」Low walls and INNER partitions are not designed as defenses against invading armies, particularly when located inside a town. Low walls are designed to restrict the motions of townsfolk and occasional visitors, routing them toward the gateways where government patrols awaited to conduct mandatory medical inspections, measure the degree of symptoms, collect fees and bribes, constructed as a countermeasure implemented after rampant infectious pandemics of sexually transmitted disease occurred.
「Plugging orifice」of「night soil, feces, anally」「the dirt path」as the pathway to get inside, to get back home to one's birthplace between soil walls and also refers to BEING INSIDE, the INTERIOR, INTERNAL, the WALLS INSIDE marking the 'specialized zone' of a town. Perhaps contributed to the association of sex with dirt in English.
Some say that「filled orifice」and「soil, ground」combine to depict old MEASURES of both linear distance and area of land, but these amounts vary between China and Japan, and between ancient and modern systems. The density of habitations within this measured area determined whether the population density of PIT HOLE HOMES was large enough to be considered a HAMLET and therefore to begin governmental administration. After abandoning communal life in caverns, many early human families lived in pits, or holes dug into the sides of hills, much like burrowing scorpions.「Orifice in soil, that is filled」by inhabitants. Refers to BEING INSIDE, the INTERIOR and INTERNAL, and the SOIL WALLS LINING INSIDE, all meanings associated with an inhabited, filled burrow in soil.
HAMLET gave birth to the idea of FOSTERING care, a HOMETOWN as the place of one's birth. Note that formerly farms and crop fields were positioned up the side of terraced slopes, so explanations of this glyph as rice paddies on the ground may not be historically accurate at least when humans first began agriculture, and even today most folks still do not live within rice paddies for some fairly obvious reasons, preferring houses on drier, more solid land and fewer mosquitoes instead.
Refers to a VILLAGE that is not always some remote place way out in the countryside, but also are special districts, zones, quarters within a larger city or town, often in the old days marked by surrounding walls with SOIL SLOPES and gateways as checkpoints, restricted entryways, a self-contained city area as a separate community having its own specialized business establishments that cater to a specific kind or class of patron, but also its own local laws, government regulations, customs, and even language at times that apply within an administrative division at the local government level, with police patrols and brute squads as enforcers.
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: lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里; lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裡|里; li (Chinese mile); 500 meters (modern); home; hometown; village; neighborhood; administrative unit
Japanese: village, hamlet, countryside, home, hometown, one's origins, one's upbringing, one's past, Japanese league, old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles, neighborhood, unit of area, countryside dialect, sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts during the Edo period
Unihan extended: unit of distance; village; lane
EDRDG: ri; village; parent's home; league
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: 99 entries
Chinese usage: 471 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 109 entries
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