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SHU KU
chi di mu ・ chi di ma ru ・ chi di me ru ・ chi di re ru ・ chi di ra su
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Anything that is freshly harvested, such as「silk threads from cocoons」will tend to dry「throughout the night」and in the morning will appear SHRUNKEN and sometimes CURLY. The same can possibly be said of the male's penis if making「human connections」and hooking up for「one night only.」「Ejaculation, throughout the night」may occur more than once during these opportunities with a fresh partner, leaving the males CONTRACTED, SHRUNK, WITHERED, CONDENSED, CURLY and perhaps WRINKLED. Note that the CURLED part may not be noticed until a few weeks later, after gonorrhea takes hold. In Chinese, also meaning to「withdraw, pull back」perhaps as a result of the intense experience, but more likely due to a case of the clap. Gonorrhea has a tendency to curve and to shrink an infected penis due to scarring internal tissue unevenly, and one-night stands are a ready source of the pathogen as the Chinese discovered. Recall that the 'females of one's own home' were relatively 'safe, easy, and cheap' as an alternative (安).
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: to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation
Japanese: wearing armour, counter for suits of armour, shrinkage, cotton crepe, to shrink, to contract, to diminish, to be benumbed, to shorten, to narrow, to close, to reduce, to boil down, to curl, to crimp, to be wavy, to be curled, to curl oneself up, to squeeze oneself in, to be huddled
Unihan extended: contract, draw in, reduce
EDRDG: shrink; contract; shrivel; wrinkle; reduce
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: 150 entries
Chinese usage: 64 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 11 entries
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- Strokes: 17
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