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TE N
mi se ・ ta na
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A「cave-like」place that is「meaningful and divine」at first depicted a combined BROTHEL and FORTUNE-TELLING service of the shaman who could give man or woman a great suck and then tell you *why*…and later an INN, or HOTEL (as in a「shelter, cave you may occupy」for the night), then a business offering food and drink (hey, why leave the hotel?), later any PLACE OF BUSINESS, SHOP, STORE, a 'little shop of whorers' as it were.
Signage notice (similar to 帘) of the shaman witch doctor being [IN]「cave is occupied」may have been needed to restrict the trade of other shamans in the guild who had formed non-compete arrangements granting exclusive rights in various districts to one shaman/ prostitute, or in other words, protecting one's turf. Note that other glyphs mainly used to depict a PLACE OF BUSINESS are directly associated with the business of prostitution (such as,「swollen standing penis deeply inserted into vaginal orifice for stud service」商), and that the original glyph that now is used to mean「trading」may have consisted of elements depicting the「ovaries and vaginal canal」with「wealth」(however, that glyphs has morphed a bit today: 貿).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: inn; shop; store
Japanese EDRDG: store, shop
Unihan extended: shop, store; inn, hotel
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: 208 entries
Chinese usage: 136 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 2 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 45 entries
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