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RE N ・ KE N
ka ma
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Elements meaning「metal」are「person taking stance with downward thrusting motions」with the right element「hand with two thrusting, harvesting multiple shafts concurrently.」Perhaps some sexual service providers were normally「unable」to perform this action with「two in hand, concurrently」hence the original meaning of TRICKY, CLEVER and the extended meaning became SCYTHE as「metal harvesting multiple shafts concurrently」after that tool was invented. NOISINESS may refer to a single service provider doing three, five, or even possibly seven or eight clients at once (using all her ports simultaneously) as a large harvest of seeds…at least, we can easily believe this was attempted in dynastic China, since they seem to have tried most everything imaginable. Harvesting grains stalks with a sickle is not inherently noisy unless one loses a finger in the process.
Refers to the part of a fish directly behind the gills, since a「person thrusting in stance with grasping two concurrently」may have two fingers, one on each side, inserted in a fish's lower gills in order to carry it or hold it up for viewing.
GOOSENECK suggests grabbing the neck of some sort of shaft in a two-handed grip, and then doing with that neck whatever was the intent.
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: variant of 鐮|镰
Japanese: sickle, sickle-and-chain, spear with curved cross-blades, gooseneck tenon and mortise joint, noisiness, part of a fish around the gills
Unihan extended: sickle
EDRDG: sickle; scythe; trick
Used within names (nanori)
かた ・ かね
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: 37 entries
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