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KI TSU ・ I TSU ・ I CHI ・ KI CHI
tsu ru be na wa
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Elements as「underwear on a festival float」(a raised display of meat) or「silk underwear for lances」「threads in a hole bore」「threads in favorable conditions」do not relate well to the given external definitions, but may very well be the source of the English expressions「twisting one's underwear, knickers, panties (and so on) into a knot, bunch, wad, twist (or whatever)」to mean BECOME VERY EXCITED, AROUSED, AGITATED. The power to draw clientele by placing a row of fine meat on a festival float and parading through town while the riders were stroking and twisting their underwear was not lost upon Chinese shamans, making these neighborhood festivities a real delight for all comers to GET FLUIDS FLOWING, TO RAISE FLUIDS FROM A DEPTH, and to drum up business (pun intended).
Nevertheless, for those readers who believe in the external sources religiously, a ROPE PUMP is using a WELL ROPE to raise water:「A rope pump is a kind of pump where a loose hanging rope is lowered down into a well and drawn up through a long pipe with the bottom immersed in water. On the rope, round disks or knots matching the diameter of the pipe are attached which pull the water to the surface.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_pump 2013-08-10 ]
Before lowering the pipe into a well, it helps to tie the ends of the rope together, creating a continuous loop of knots being pulled up through the pipe.
A specialized type of rope pump is a chain pump:「Chain pumps were also used in ancient China by at least the 1st century A.D. In China, they were also called dragon backbones. …From the 1st century onwards, chain pumps were widespread throughout the Chinese countryside.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_pump 2013-08-10 ] …Needless to say, this explanation has not much to do with these elements as「underwear on a festival float」or「silk underwear for lances.」
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: a well-rope
Japanese EDRDG: rope
Unihan extended: rope
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?
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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.
Primal elements
- Glyph.11770
- Strokes: 18
- other
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