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「You know that getting to know your customer is important, but how do exactly do you do that? This is where what is known as an ‘exit survey' or ‘comment card' is invaluable. It stands to reason that if your customer is your most valuable asset, then speaking directly with him is a powerful tool. Not only will you gather information about who your customer is, but you will then be able to communicate with them, sending out promotions and information that will be invaluable for building a fruitful relationship. Don't forget, it's easier (and cheaper) to market to existing customers than to new ones, so this customer database will become invaluable. Keep adding to your database with EVERY customer and potential customer. No matter what business you are in, you can, and should, find a way to speak with your customer at the end of any interaction. Find out from your customer's perspective what you are doing right and what you need to improve on.」
[ https://www.business2community.com/strategy/your-most-valuable-marketing-activity-the-exit-survey-011315 2017-03-29 ]
To take the bumps off, to make a surface smooth with no splinters: a carpenter's plane holds a metal blade wrapped inside a level, flat surface with handles. Wood shavings curl off the blade looking a little like the snake element.
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 eliminate; to dig; to question; a carpenter's plane; to plane; to level; to make smooth
Unihan extended: carpenter's plane; plane, level
EDRDG: carpenter's plane; plane; level
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
Chinese usage: 18 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 12 entries
- Glyph.01163
- Strokes: 07 ~ 08
- other
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