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ku ra i ・ gu ra i
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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.
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: position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
Japanese: rank, place, decimal place, counter for ghosts, throne, crown, seat, government position, court rank, social standing, class, echelon, rung, grade, level, tier, digit, degree, extent, amount, to rank, to be ranked, to be located
Unihan extended: throne; position, post; rank, status; seat
EDRDG: rank; grade; throne; crown; about; some
Used within names (nanori)
ぞき
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: 401 entries
Chinese usage: 284 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 19 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 25 entries
- Glyph.01086
- Strokes: 07
- jlpt-N3 grade_04
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