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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ユ ・ ユウ ・ ユイ
YU ・ YU U ・ YU I
Kun-yomi
よし ・ よ(る
yo shi ・ yo ru

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Meanings of elements
SCREWING in FILLED ORIFICE
…or: PENIS in CAVITY
…or: ROD in PLUGGING MUCK ORIFICE
Original strokes were「genitals, penis within a cavity」(凷) that either caused or resulted in a「clotted condition」(see 屆, 届) that graphically represents an EXTRACTION, the REASON FOR living, and the CAUSE of DRIPPING and FALLING DROPS, what FOLLOWS AFTER…modern strokes could simply be a merging of「rod plugging an orifice」or「penis merged within spread legs」as the REASON FOR a male's existence, the CAUSE of conception and life for all humans and bonobos, and a condition that will necessitate an EXTRACTION at some later point, leading to DROPS FALLING, a graphic representation of Teslicle's Deviant to Fudd's First Law of Opposition:「It goes in, it must come out…」
「Corpse, genitals, penis within a container.」…while it may seem a bit gruesome today, folks from around the world only a few decades ago often lopped off the head and genitalia of an enemy or criminal, stuffing the parts within the mouth cavity for added effect while the decapitated head was on display: and what better way was there to express one's regard for an enemy?
Alternatively, and not based upon the old source elements of「corpse's genitals in a container」but instead,「buttocks soil in containers」the modified elements in use today may be a merging of「up」(丄) or「vertical motion」(丨) with「rice paddy」to describe the process of removing silt, soil, and fecal slurry from lower paddies on the slopes where rainwater had eroded it. Muck was placed into baskets lined with coarse hemp cloth to allow drainage, and ported back up the slopes to higher-level plots, an EXTRACTION, with FALLING DROPS, the REASON, CAUSE of the rice paddies becoming fertile, and the introduction of a passive grammatical state in Chinese.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to follow; from; it is for…to; reason; cause; because of; due to; to; to leave it (to sb); by (introduces passive verb)
Japanese EDRDG: wherefore, a reason
Unihan extended: cause, reason; from

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: 155 entries


Chinese usage: 114 entries


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