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HO U
ha na su ・ ~p pa na shi ・ ha na tsu ・ ha na re ru ・ ko ku ・ ho u ru
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No matter how the various elemental meanings are combined, they all suggest a human DISCHARGE of some sort.「Method, person, prostrated whacking」to mean RELEASED, SET FREE, LIBERATED, SHOOTING OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS, NEGLECTING duties, likely a reference to an autoerotically stimulated discharge as seen in glyphs within which this glyph is used as an element: a JERK.
「Person, method」being「coerced, forced, whacked」is perhaps the ancient way of getting BANISHED, FIRED, DISCHARGED by a boss to some distant location anywhere else. Nevertheless, the Chinese euphemism of something「fired」relates to clay and sticky soil slurry with a heated rod inserted and 'getting stiffed.'
Whacking at a mother scorpion will cause her to FLEE at great speed. To save herself from being struck in a highly dangerous environment, a mother scorpion will first flee and LEAVE (AS IS) the scorplings, being FREE of them permits a hastier retreat, temporarily NEGLECTING her offspring to plan a defense or attack the intruder, only later returning. Note that the scorplings are also being referenced by this glyph as being DISCHARGED, RELEASED, SET FREE, LIBERATED, SHOOTING OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS in crossing motions.
「Method of bougie reaming head and whacking」and so on can refer to the DISCHARGE RELEASED SHOOTING IN ALL DIRECTIONS during medical treatments for a gonorrhea infection, someone NEGLECTING proper methods, becoming BANISHED.
It is no coincidence that the English root word「broth」meaning fluids in which meat has been heated, cooked and fired, is used to describe「someone who broths」as a brother and a「house for brothing」as a brothel.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to release; to free; to let go; to put; to place; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
Japanese EDRDG: set free, release, fire, shoot, emit, banish, liberate
Unihan extended: put, release, free, liberate
Used within names (nanori)
はなれ
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: 426 entries
Chinese usage: 263 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 35 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 32 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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