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SHI ・ SU ・ TSU
ko ・ ~ko ・ ne
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Significantly, the glyph meaning「to like, what is liked」combines 'female' with 'child' (好), i.e., female children. While still a CHILD:「…[T]he custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young girls to prevent further growth. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with [female] bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「Until the Chinese communists took power in 1949, bigamy, concubinage and child marriage were commonplace. In 1950, Beijing enacted a new law that outlawed these practices. The law also enforced monogamy in an effort to make women more equal to men in Chinese society.」 [ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/18/chinese-academic-suspended-for-advocating-polygamy 2021-06-19 ]
(1) 子 rat (children, spermatozoa)
(2) 丑 cattle (herded meat assets, harem)
(3) 寅 tiger (religious dogma, enslavement)
(4) 卯 rabbit (female, reproduction)
(5) 辰 dragon (power sex)
(6) 巳 snake (fornication)
(7) 午 horse (autoeroticism)
(8) 未 sheep (zooerastia)
(9) 申 monkey (deities, anal-centric)
(10) 酉 cock (cognitive processing impairment)
(11) 戌 dog (male, domination)
(12) 亥 swine (humanity in general).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: (noun suffix); son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
Japanese EDRDG: child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Unihan extended: offspring, child; fruit, seed of; 1st terrestrial branch
Used within names (nanori)
い ・ き ・ ぎ ・ く ・ け ・ ねっ
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
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, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
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 seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they 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 lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 2149 entries
Chinese usage: 1929 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 150 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 41 entries
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- Strokes: 03
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