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テン
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Kun-yomi
かたじけな(い
ka ta ji ke na i

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Meanings of elements
YOUNG, FRESH-LOOKING, TENDER with INTENTIONS CONCERNED WITH THE JUDGMENT OF RIGHT OR WRONG OF HUMAN ACTION AND CHARACTER
…or: RECIPROCATING ROD MOTION, INDICATES EXTENT of REPEATED HEAD BOBBING with FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS, DOMINATION and with emphasis
…or: HEAVENLY DIVINE, CELESTIAL, BOUNDLESS, NO LIMIT, NEVER-ENDING with MORAL INTENT, ONE'S MORAL NATURE
…or: YOUNG FRESH-LOOKING TENDER MONS PUBIS and MARKED AS THE EMPHASIZED PART, THIS IS THE POINT, THIS SPOT RIGHT HERE
Japanese and Chinese meanings clearly diverge.
Chinese sources list the meaning as TO SHAME someone, to BE ASHAMED, perhaps as those「youthful hearted, young morality」who sometimes make foolish decisions bringing SHAME to one's parents or DISGRACING themselves,「repeatedly using both hands on small, youthful stream (with emphasis)」or「repeatedly bobbing head with family and emphasis on small youth」or「dying young due to morality, moral nature」with other possible combinations connoting SHAME and DISGRACE. In addition to the obvious meanings, in the good old days in Asia (not so long ago), it was a shame not to give birth to a son, and of course the parents were blamed by everybody for「doing something to deserve such a horrible curse」as to not give birth to a son:「dying young with emphasis on small mons pubis」
「Couples whose one child turns out to be a girl are in an even more painful dilemma: cultural norms dictate that daughters marry out and transfer their emotional and economic loyalties to their husband's family. Since sons alone support their parents through old age, a couple with only a daughter is left with no source of future economic security. Rural China has no system of old age support, thus farming couples without sons are faced with the specter of destitution once they are too old to work the fields. Given these conditions, a number of rural couples have responded by exercising a form of gender selection by committing infanticide on their female neonates. Infanticide, particularly female infanticide, was common in traditional China. Natural hardships such as famines, floods, widespread disease, and overpopulation often converged with cultural norms that favored sons and encouraged hard-pressed families to abandon or kill their infant daughters.」
[ https://escholarship.org/content/qt80n7k798/qt80n7k798_noSplash_52ba4ab4ec8ddf327295d55c41de6927.pdf?t=n4ov4w 2021-09-09 ]
Japanese meanings infer「young and small with emphasis」or「intent」or「stream of emissions from heaven with emphasis」or「young tender fresh-looking mons pubis and emission stream with emphasis」as thanks to the gods, GRATITUDE for a child, or being given a child by relatives if a couple was unable to conceive one of their own and BECOMING INDEBTED TO ANOTHER. Other interpretations are possible, of course, such as grateful feelings associated with the simple enjoyment of youthful pussy, or, bobbing head with both hands and emphasis on a stream of emissions, and so on.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to shame
Japanese EDRDG: grateful, indebted
Unihan extended: disgraced; ashamed; self-deprecating

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.



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