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「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 ]
Nevertheless, sources say that the original glyph depicts a set of bound bamboo slats containing registers written on bamboo strips「bent, curved」proscribing「moral aberrations」that were woven with jute into long scroll-like rolls「on a firm base」(physically and morally speaking) and unrolled for reading. Needless to point out that attempts to legislate the morality of a group of individuals within society has never succeeded…pretending to obey the rules leads to the meanings of CEREMONY, RITUAL as practices that pretend to be doing something for a short time period while gathered with other humans and according to some strict set of rules, only to be abandoned as soon as the ceremony ends, or when the other people who were watching are no longer around. Back when humanity had no societal laws, everyone (male and female alike) was some sort of cannibal, pedophile, fellatrix, slave trader, murderer, thief, anal rapist, ewe schtupper, drug user, and so on and so forth…laws have surely done a lot of good establishing a moral code of human conduct, since we simply never hear about any of these problems occurring any longer centuries later…or do we?
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
Japanese EDRDG: code, ceremony, law, rule
Unihan extended: law, canon; documentation; classic, scripture
Used within names (nanori)
すけ ･ つね ･ の ･ のり
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: 138 entries
Chinese usage: 110 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 11 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 29 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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