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In Chinese means to CAUSE A BRAKING ACTION, CEASE MOTION AND COME TO A COMPLETE STOP. Plastered on the rear bumpers of many an old cart were rectangular adhesive strips that read, 'I BRAKE for meat' (written with this glyph, of course), and the driver never failed to scoop up roadkill or pause for a passing carnival float sporting a line of dancers while giving the real meaning to the English term 'rubbernecking.'
Taoist sages considered all organized religions and Confucianism to be just such snares of sheepish people. Nevertheless, TEMPLE, SHRINE likely referred formerly to these elements as the shaman's places of business, the first human religion,「whacking woody reaming」or「weaving with screwing emissions and rod streaming」as a place to STOP A WHILE. A MONASTERY was a place folks who could not be cured went to die.
「Weaving cut hemp」in a place traditionally where herbs, particularly cannabis, were cultivated, a MONASTERY, TEMPLE, SHINTŌ SHRINE. Note that Shintō「zig-zag」hangings used to depict a kami, a deity's spirit, are made from cannabis paper「weaves」hence there was, and is, a need to cultivate cannabis. As far as Buddhist monks are concerned (who do not use such zig-zags…perhaps preferring Big Bambú?), one can only surmise, since the elements also are「trim the heads from cannabis plants」and as the old song goes,「no stems or seeds that you don't need….」Which means the flowertop buds remain, for whatever reason, such as enabling those long, drawn-out, drone-chanting sessions Buddhists enjoy…. Top left element is literally「a marker stroke in the center of the head」to indicate the「soft spot」of infants where the bones「weave」together after 6-8 months, but in this case, perhaps the「soft head of the herb」or the ancient forerunner of「this is your brain…somewhere.」
Scholars say the top-left element is「whacking, stroking motion」and refers to smashing hemp hurds in order to make hemp paper…could be, but that still leaves the buds intact for other uses. The process of extracting fibers from hemp involved cutting down the very hard, stiff, turgid stalks of hemp, allowing them to lay in the field while retting to soften the outer hurds and become flaccid, and then beating the stalks to separate the fibers for making cloth or paper, discarding the hurd byproduct as superfluous scrap.
Religion anciently worshipped all sorts of sexual practices that were practiced and sold as services in TEMPLES and SHRINES, as「whacking, stroking woody, vertical reciprocating rod motion with stream」that the sages later may have applied to the presumed celibacy of monks and priests who vowed not to copulate with women.
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 brake; Buddhist monastery, temple or shrine
Japanese: ksetra, pagoda, temple, central pillar of a pagoda
Unihan extended: temple, shrine, monastery
EDRDG: temple
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: 20 entries
Chinese usage: 16 entries
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- Strokes: 08
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