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Meanings of elements
multiple TONGUING MOUTHS
Appears in modern fonts as「multiple suns」or「sun on tonguing mouth.」…or「multiple tonguing mouths」(little ones and bigger ones) to indicate PROSPERITY, likely by being sufficiently wealthy to enable one to afford multiple concubines in an ever-increasing harem. Although the Sun's rays can shine deeply into a wide open mouth that is tilted upward toward the sky as when someone is laughing aloud due to winning the Powerball jackpot, how often does that really occur? and who could see inside in that case? most wealthy folks have been wealthy for some time, so it does not occur to them to suddenly tilt back and let out a loud guffaw because of it, generally.
Represents PROSPERITY, only HAPPY discussions, SINGING LOUDLY, with an dynastic China euphemism,「singing girl」that refers to prostitution and being able to afford multiple concubines (倡, 娼, 誯, 閶) as well as other glyphs for which the published meaning has been censored (淐, 琩) for no apparent reason other than this meaning of the right element as「multiple tonguing mouths」going at it like a troupe of bonobos.
Perhaps no need to mention, but in our solar system there do not appear to be any binary stars, twin-stars or dual-suns.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: prosperous; flourishing
Japanese EDRDG: prosperous, bright, clear
Unihan extended: light of sun; good, proper

Used within names (nanori)
まさ ・ まさし ・ よし ・ あき ・ あきら ・ さかえ ・ あつ ・ すけ

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 8 entries


Chinese usage: 163 entries


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