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YU ・ YU U ・ YU I
yo shi ・ yo ru
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「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.
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless 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: reason, significance, cause, to be due to, to be caused by, to depend on, to turn on, to be based on, to come from, meaningful, suggestive, seeming to be with a history, seeming to be with circumstances that are difficult to explain, grave, serious, alarming
Unihan extended: cause, reason; from
EDRDG: wherefore; a reason
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 155 entries
Chinese usage: 114 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 168 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 14 entries
- Glyph.00171
- Strokes: 05
- jlpt-N3 grade_03
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