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KI ・ GI ・ GO
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「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term)…. Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
Historians describe the males of most human cultures as possessing sex slaves, girls and boys bought and sold as objectified meat while still young children, previously considered to be a trivial matter of little importance since historically everybody who was anybody owned slaves, as a matter of fact, worldwide: it was a human's nature to control others for selfish reasons, and one can argue that it still is, fundamentally.
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and [her owner] took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's bound feet.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
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: his; her; its; theirs; that; such; it (refers to something preceding it)
Japanese: that, you, oneself, themselves, she, that person, it, that time, then, there, um…, er…, uh…, each, every, either, respectively, severally, and, thereupon, because of that, and then, even so, besides, moreover, without change, as it is, after that, trivial, insignificant, meager, meagre, that little amount, such a small extent, well then …, in that situation, in which case, that much, as much, to that extent, only that, that alone, no more than that, that is all, but, and yet, nevertheless, notwithstanding, If that's the case …, If so …, That being the case …, in itself, in its own way, as suits the occasion, within its capacity, within limitations, until then, till then, up to that time, the end of it, all there is to it
Unihan extended: his, her, its, their; that
EDRDG: that
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: 127 entries
Chinese usage: 153 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 66 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
- Glyph.01576
- Strokes: 08
- grade_09
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