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NA ・ NA I ・ DA I
i ka n ・ ka ra na shi
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Significantly, the original form of this glyph included a「woody」element (㮈) as well.「Two hands wide and displayed」suggests neither hand being in use at the moment, indicating STANDING and ENDURING, BEARING UP, holding off any urges while otherwise idle. Note that in Chinese, this glyph combined with one's own two hands refers to the「bent penis」element, the downwards-right concave character stroke 乚 that often entails the「talented use of one's hands to accomplish a task with endurance, doing something for which there is no cure possible (i.e., this will never change)」as whatever pertains to or involves a woody.
See the related glyph (柰) for its meaning of covered with small, red bumps or spots that are difficult to endure or bear that refer to herpetic lesions or chancres euphemistically resembling crabapples, and provided a good reason to start praying to the gods:「difficult to be rid of, cannot get away from」and both the herpes virus and the pox did stay with a person for the remainder of life, having NO CURE. Crabapples remain tart difficult to endure even after fully ripening, hence there is NO CURE for that sourness naturally. Asking WHAT CAN BE DONE? rhetorically wondering HOW CAN I BE HELPED? now that disease has caused infection.
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: how can one help?
Unihan extended: but, how; bear, stand, endure
EDRDG: Nara; what?
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: 18 entries
Chinese usage: 36 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 20 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 4 entries
- Glyph.01776
- Strokes: 08
- jlpt-N2 grade_08
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