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SHO U ・ JO U
u ke ta ma wa ru ・ u ke ru ・ sa sa ge ru ・ to do me ru ・ ta su ke ru ・ ko ra su
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Both「second position with no-longer-integrated foot of service provider」and「rolled coiled with hand and tense gasping with head taut」suggest TAKING CONTROL, HOLDING IN ONE'S OWN HAND, TAKE CHARGE AND CONTINUE by performing a selfie after giving up use of a set of no-longer-integrated feet for some unstated reason (see 拯 using these same elements but with「hands 扌」inserted from beneath to mean「rescue, help, lift and raise」).「Rolling, gasping」with「three, many times and ejaculating」「two, turgid-flaccid with a child」「sitting person, service provider」need no further explanation as HAND OFF TO ANOTHER, to RECEIVE FROM SOMEONE ELSE, to CONTINUE THE ACTION STARTED BY SOMEONE ELSE, an AGREEMENT TO UNDERTAKE ACTION, to TAKE AN ORDER from a client or one's boss.
「Three」in「bereft of strength, lacking liveliness, state of torpor, lifeless, flaccid or flat」would suggest a group, perhaps a threesome, exerting themselves somehow in the extreme…or one person performing a series of self-manipulations.
Chinese meanings of CONTINUE, to BEAR perhaps reluctantly as the child service provider's weary feeling, or simply being hoisted in reciprocating motions while held in both hands, AGREEMENT TO UNDERTAKE or continue a task, with one person handing off the action to the next guy after achieving「the finish of rolling motion of streaming fluids in waves.」…the「watery」element may indicate insipidness due to multiple discharges in relatively rapid order all from the same guy after the service provider is passed back and received again for the next round(s).
Japanese meanings primarily of AGREEMENT, to UNDERTAKE AND TAKE CHARGE, to take over or assume the CONTINUATION OF EFFORT of another person, to RECEIVE AN ORDER, HEAR A COMMAND, BE TOLD and TO KNOW what is expected.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to bear; to carry; to hold; to continue; to undertake; to take charge; owing to; due to; to receive; Cheng (c. 2000 BC), third of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God
Japanese EDRDG: acquiesce, hear, listen to, be informed, receive
Unihan extended: inherit, receive; succeed
Used within names (nanori)
つぐ ・ こと ・ すけ ・ つぎ ・ よし
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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 103 entries
Chinese usage: 148 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 58 entries
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