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te ga ta ・ wa ri fu
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Fundamentally may describe obtaining medical treatment for a sexually transmissible infection with a shaman witch doctor's CERTIFICATION of completion of the series of treatments, one's TICKET for re-entry into the brothels and to pass the inspection station gateway patrolled and staffed by the local government administration. A BOND is the contractual promise to guarantee performance of another, in this case the doctor's pledge that the patient has a「clean bill of health」literally, and this glyph may have been the source of that English expression. The TITLE TO DEEDS as the English plainly states is 'entitlement to do stuff,' but also, permission to enter a restricted specified area of land, the brothel quarter in which to do the deeds…a ticket to ride, pass through those pearly jade gates as it were. A VOUCHER is a written form of vouching that provides personal assurances or a guarantee, in this case a guarantee of completing the proscribed medical treatments. To CERTIFY THE TRUTH of a matter by a declaration of one's opinion as an assertion of the truth.
Elements describe adequate reasons for FATIGUE, and STOP with various applications such as being「rolled in cloth and burning sensations with laboring effort」that causes a patient to sit on the sidelines a while until the infection is cleared.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 券; bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half); contract; deed (i.e. title deeds); ticket; voucher; certificate
Japanese EDRDG: become fatigued, stop
Unihan extended: certificate, ticket; title deeds
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.
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