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A I
ku ra i
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Somewhat confusing if using the literal, commonly understood meanings of these elements as「sun loving」that ought to connote contrary meanings to 靉. To make the sceptics happy, perhaps we can stretch the meanings to suggest what the glyph depicts is a condition that would「love sunshine」to dispel obscurity and darkness. Realize that a sweltering hot midday of midsummer is not so in need of more sunshine. It is the dim, cold, dark obscurity that would「love some sun.」…maybe, or is that too much of a stretch in inductive logic?
Alternatively, other connotations are possible if in fact the left element is「tonguing mouth」and not「day, sun.」Someone assuming the physical posture or position depicted by the right element would surely not be able to「speak, say」much with「tongue in mouth」uttering only garbled, OBSCURE, VAGUE, AMBIGUOUS mumblings, since the ability to adequately exercise one's larynx in such a constrained position is obviously compromised—just plain breathing would be, too: elements are also「breathing with rod in mouth.」Fertile imaginations can run wild describing this glyph.
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: (of daylight) dim; obscure; clandestine; dubious
Japanese: dim, faint, unclear
Unihan extended: obscure, dim, ambiguous, vague
EDRDG: dark; not clear
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: 16 entries
Chinese usage: 3 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 24 entries
- Glyph.10824
- Strokes: 17
- grade_08
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