注意:このページには、一部の読者にとって不快または不適切な内容が含まれている可能性があります。
Note: This page may contain content that is offensive or inappropriate for some readers.

  • Glyph.01879
  • Strokes: 08
  • other


MingLiU:
Mincho:
Gothic:

Login    Welcome! Introduction    
Glyphs missing from your font set may appear strange, or not at all. We recommend enabling East Asian language support.


On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ハ ・ ヒ
HA ・ HI
Kun-yomi
つつ(み
tsu tsu mi

Glyph elements  [ Toggle Font ]

Meanings of elements
GROUND, SOIL and SKIN, PREPUCE
「Ground skin」does not refer to anything SLOPED or SLANTED per se, but seeing the「skin of the soil」normally is apparent when viewing a SLANTED HILLSIDE SLOPE after a small mudslide with sod bunched at the base of a slope. In modern times, this effect can be seen after a bulldozer or other piece of heavy machinery scrapes the layer of sod or natural grasses that are growing on soil, in preparation to begin digging the foundation construction site of a building, for example. While perhaps needless to point out, this glyph is one of the most graphic examples of why almost no one explains the detailed meaning of elements today: use your imagination with the elements as「night soil and foreskin」to arrive at the same image as the small mudslide walled in by a rippled layer of skin, or a WALL OF ACCUMULATED SOIL as used in a DAM, DIKE or SOIL EMBANKMENT during the old days.

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: slope; sloping; slanted
Unihan extended: slope, bank, hillside
EDRDG: dike; dam; slope; bank

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 2 entries


Chinese usage: 62 entries


Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]


  • Glyph.01879
  • Strokes: 08
  • other

   


Agree? Disagree? Express your opinion by posting a comment.

This publication has included material from the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

This publication has included material from the JMdict (EDICT, etc.) dictionary files in accordance with the license provisions of the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

This publication has included material from the Unicode Character Database. Copyright © 1991-2016 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. Distributed under these Terms of Use.


Protected by Copyscape
Copyright © 2010-2026 debunKanji.com, all rights reserved.