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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
イ
I
Kun-yomi
くらい ・ ぐらい
ku ra i ・ gu ra i

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Meanings of elements
CORE with emphasis EMITTING UPWARD
…or: PERSON with STANDING
…or: ROD HEAD with ERECTION
Depicts a「person's standing」in a social ranking system relative to everyone else. A designated position within an ordered queue, and it is presumed with many other persons standing in the same line, in some sort of SYSTEM or RANKING, perhaps by height, length, girth, term of service, skills attained, and so on.
A「person with erection」and determining an APPROXIMATION of the EXTENT, the reach or length of that erect appendage for use somehow in an ORDERED SYSTEM or RANKING, attaining a certain standardized GRADE, RANK, or LEVEL perhaps to enable comparison of tools or individual ability that would necessarily be unrelated to how tall a person was from head to foot. As crass as that seems, the RELATIVE POSITION, EXTENT, APPROXIMATION would relate to how long or large a man's erection was when compared with other men, or animals, an activity that perhaps is presently frowned upon more than it once was apparently, since programming of such ancient sports-type events is not readily available today for viewing as late-night television broadcasting without the prepayment of a subscription fee—nevertheless, these same comparisons are still performed today by a certain genre of motion picture actors, friends, and brothers (see 競, 兢, 涖 and 莅) in homes, movie studios, locker rooms, and casting couches.
As a COUNTER FOR GHOSTS, it may be presumed that ghosts never need to sit and therefore are always erect, whether standing or floating to arrive somewhere.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
Japanese EDRDG: rank, grade, throne, crown, about, some
Unihan extended: throne; position, post; rank, status; seat

Used within names (nanori)
ぞき

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 412 entries


Chinese usage: 284 entries


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