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KO ･ YA
ma ji ･ ma ji ko ru
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Infestations in many cases can repeat within the same host, many times in a revolving cycle of egg to adult to egg, and so on.「Many, many worms in netting between spread legs」holding a poultice used to draw out the worms refers INTESTINAL PARASITES such as tapeworms, flatworms, pinworms, roundworms, whipworms, or hookworms. Intestinal parasites were a common problem 10,000 years ago when many folks snacked on raw meat and walked around barefoot, and are a common problem today since many folks still snack on undercooked meat and walk around barefoot, such as children:
「There are a vast number of worms that can live within the human body. The worms live in the digestive tract, especially in the intestines, from where they obtain their nutrition. Hence, worms are parasites living within the body of humans, who are the hosts. …Worm infestations are present in people of all ages but they are much more of a problem in children who are just beginning to learn to cope with their parasitic enemies. …Intestinal worms, quite simply put, are worms that live within the intestines of humans. These are parasitic worms which feed on the food that passes through the human digestive tract. All these worms spend their entire lifetimes in the intestines of humans. They breed within the intestines and hence increase their populations. The worms have hook-like attachments on their heads (called a 'scolex') by which they attach onto the inner lining of the intestines. Though worms are generally found in the intestines, they can also be found within the stomach and the rectum. …Worms [were, 100 years ago] present in the intestines of all human beings.」
[ link now-dead was https://www.ayushveda.com/health/intestinal-worms.htm 2012-08-28 so instead see [ https://theconversation.com/they-might-sound-gross-but-intestinal-worms-can-actually-be-good-for-you-49868 2023-15-17 ]
Yikes!.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: arch. legendary venomous insect; to poison; to bewitch; to drive to insanity; to harm by witchcraft; intestinal parasite
Japanese EDRDG: rice worm, lead astray
Unihan extended: poison; venom; harm; bewitch
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
Japanese vocabulary: 6 entries
Chinese usage: 6 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 26 entries
- Glyph.13123
- Strokes: 23
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