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MO KU ・ BO KU
da ma ru ・ mo da su
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It is unlikely that a「black dog」is any quieter, silent, or less disturbing than another color of dog coat.「Fostering, one's upbringing with dog and many emissions」as a well-trained, cared-for animal that is QUIET, STILL, MUTE at home. Nevertheless,「sinister, evil, internally ruptured and bleeding」「dog with many emissions」after being kicked in the ribs WITHOUT NOTICE for barking will become QUIET and may die due to TORN TISSUES with INTERNAL BLEEDING, and in dynastic China, likely also would have become tomorrow's family supper. The now-missing animal could very well be the reason for SILENCE and being QUIET, and actually there are not many stray dogs in Asia. Note the Japanese variant uses one less stroke count for「black」and that the now-ingested animal will then become exactly at the elements describe:「dog in feces emitted from full orifice」from many family members.
See original glyph (穆)「gonorrhea conspicuous streaming emissions covering pubic hair, fur.」
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 默
Japanese: silence, stillness, quietness, without giving notice, taciturnity, refusing explanation, pantomime, to be silent, mute, dumb, to stop talking, silent prayer, to say no more, to sink into silence
Unihan extended: silent; quiet, still; dark
EDRDG: silence; become silent; stop speaking; leave as is
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: 68 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 33 entries
- Glyph.09970
- Strokes: 16 ~ 15
- jlpt-N2 grade_08
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