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  • Glyph.01920
  • Strokes: 08
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MingLiU:
Mincho:
Gothic:
油
油

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On-yomi   [ Toggle rōmaji ]
ユ ・ ユウ
YU ・ YU U
Kun-yomi
あぶら
a bu ra

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Meanings of elements
JUICES in ORIFICE
…or: TURBULENT SURGING with ROD IN RECIPROCATING MOTION
…or: FLUID and EXTRACTION
…or: FLUIDS and CAUSATION, REASON FOR, FALLING DROPS
…or: FLUIDS with ROD in PLUGGING ORIFICE
…or: FLUID for SCREWING in ORIFICE
As an element, the left strokes are used to depict any sort of「flow, liquid」(as a river flows). In this case, it may depict the liquid that flows, drips from「extracting」seeds or beans in a press, and that is OIL. The left element does not always refer to water as some sources claim.
These elements are「flow with rod in orifice fully」but original right element strokes were「penis within cavity, fecal cavity」(凷 as in 屆, 届) with essentially the same meaning, and OIL was/is often essential in order to enhance the experience of both participants, universally acclaimed as a best practice. Tough-guy samurai warriors always carried a small vial of olive oil ostensibly for this purpose ('holey' anointing), since a small quantity would have few other uses than the「causation of flowing fluids.」Sufficient lubrication, a function of OIL for「fluids flowing with rod plugging an orifice.」…as with most glyphs, this set of elements can be interpreted in a number of various ways, but the end result always points to the same conclusion.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: oil; fat; grease; petroleum; to apply tung oil, paint or varnish; oily; greasy; glib; cunning
Japanese EDRDG: oil, fat
Unihan extended: oil, fat, grease, lard; paints

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 339 entries


Chinese usage: 293 entries


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