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RA I
ta no mu ・ ta no mo shi i ・ ta yo ru
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To ENTREAT, MAKE AN EARNEST REQUEST to not be careless, or, to get going and fulfill performance of the contracted-for services with some enthusiasm.「Management」with「head facing downward」as ENTREATING, EARNESTLY, FERVENTLY ASKING for something, such as when begging for forgiveness, after being ENTRUSTED with precious items but screwing up (literally). Referring to RISK MANAGEMENT over the actions of one's subordinates.
In Chinese, the original glyph (賴) of「woody reaming a reluctant service provider」needs no further explanation as RENEGE, a LOW QUALITY EXPERIENCE, NOT FULFILL A TRUST, DISCLAIM LIABILITY TO PAY, to BLAME OTHERS for a failure, to deny responsibility for some action after being blamed, to commit an evil deed by reneging on a promise of performance or payment, not paying a debt, not fulfilling a trust or a fiduciary duty, and so on as applicable to both the reluctant service provider and the dissatisfied client.
Some have suggested that in the good old days, wealthy lords sent their trusted agents to scour the countryside for beautiful and very young virgins intended as candidates for the lord's harem, as the best there are throughout the kingdom, with connotations of IMPLICIT TRUST and RELIANCE, FIDUCIARY DUTY of the persons responsible. In China, most all candidates were lame with bound feet and no way to escape, best-practices for management techniques, maintaining control of assets and with the right element of「head down」as when feeling shame, this Japanese version describes the emotions of those ENTRUSTED after some of the booty either got away or were trashed prior to delivery. Anyone seeing such a display of meat, even a trusted fiduciary, may have thought twice (or more) about schtupping (ejaculation into a birth canal or other attainable orifice) them and then running off with the remaining cash he was holding that was received from his lord in order to purchase the girls from their families in the first place, so perhaps it was better not to look and「keep one's head facing downward」instead in order to mitigate the temptation. Needless to say, maintaining the chain of custody of such a large amount of important booty owned by one's lord has connotations of implicit trust and reliance upon the persons managing the bevy of virginal hymens, until safely deposited with the lord for eventual deflowering (there are good reasons for「speedy delivery」速 of the chattel).
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: Japanese variant of 賴|赖
Japanese: request, favor, favour, reliance, dependence, trust, to request, to beg, to ask, to call, to order, to reserve, to entrust to, to rely on, to have recourse to, to depend on, excuse me, pardon me, used when visiting someone else's house to ask to be shown inside, reliability, please!, I'm asking you, for heaven's sake, reliable, trustworthy, hopeful, promising
Unihan extended: rely, depend on; accuse falsely
EDRDG: trust; request
Used within names (nanori)
よち ・ より
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: 74 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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