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MO KU ・ BO KU
me ・ ~me ・ ma~
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Seemingly depicts a three-in-one orifice combination within a single alignment as 'the goods' (品), and the center-aligned orifices of any single fleshpot individually were only three naturally (i.e., no man-made foot-ball binding, hand actions, or teat-squeezing): the mouth, the vagina, and the anus would account for the three orifices in the CENTER OF A FLESHPOT as one GOAL or another in the glyph, and in the eyes of an onlooker, or a sequence of these three orifices, one's AIM.
See the source glyph「fleshpot」(鼎) with this element as its center and likely what all EYES are looking at, where all EYES ARE FOCUSED being the contents of tonight's meat, or supper in the communal cauldron, or any sort of meat for that matter.
Some folks today attempt to explain this shape as upper and lower eyelids, and while that surely is a convenient mnemonic, where is the pupil? if the meaning of this glyph were 'cataract, lens opacity' then perhaps this explanation would suffice.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; order (taxonomy); goal; name; title
Japanese EDRDG: eye, class, look, insight, experience, care, favor
Unihan extended: eye; look, see; division, topic
Used within names (nanori)
さかん ・ さがん ・ さっか ・ さつか
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: 1432 entries
Chinese usage: 386 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 218 entries
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- Strokes: 05
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