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English word「malaria」is from Italian, meaning「bad vapors, bad air.」Indians (people living in India) understood thousands of years ago that malaria was caused by insect bites, but the Romans believed that it was caused by swamp gas, miasma [ https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/ 2013-10-30 ]
The belief that malaria could be transmitted by breathing the bad air exhaled by a sufferer caused such folks to be「branded, marked in a conspicuous manner to all.」
Believing that 'bad air' somehow caused malaria did not seem to stop the common folk from copulating, or, did not stop the Chinese sages from joking about it:「screwing mute」would be the result of covering one's mouth and nose or holding one's breath while fornicating so as to not breathe in the exhaled breath of the partner(s) at the moment…once more causing the person doing so to be「marked in a conspicuous manner to all」others present during that session.
Furthermore, since hanging around sick people and breathing the same air as they do was thought to cause illness, as is thought today as well, another result was that participants normally desired to get in, do their business, and then get out of the brothel as soon as possible, hence these elements are also「illness that causes erection coming early, before others.」And lastly, with everyone quietly holding their breath and not talking, laughing, yapping like a horny dog or howling like a wolf and so on, MALARIA was also dubbed the「illness that enables sounds of screwing」to be heard echoing in the caverns.
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: malaria; miasma
Unihan extended: malaria pestilential vapors
EDRDG: miasma
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: 2 entries
Chinese usage: 5 entries
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- Strokes: 16
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