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O TSU ・ I TSU
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「Peyronie's Disease, …also known as 'Induratio penis plastica,' or more recently 'Chronic Inflammation of the Tunica Albuginea (CITA),' is a connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques in the soft tissue of the penis affecting up to 10% of men. Specifically, scar tissue forms in the tunica albuginea, the thick sheath of tissue surrounding the corpora cavernosa causing pain, abnormal curvature, erectile dysfunction, indentation, loss of girth and shortening. …The disease may cause pain. Hardened, big, cord-like lesions (scar tissue known as 'plaques'). Or abnormal curvature of the penis when erect due to chronic inflammation of the tunica albuginea (CITA). Although the popular conception of Peyronie's Disease is that it always involves curvature of the penis, the scar tissue sometimes causes divots or indentations rather than curvature. The condition may also make sexual intercourse painful and/or difficult…」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyronie%27s_disease 2012-08-15 ]
Twisting VINES grow SECOND WITHIN A SEQUENTIAL ORDER, in UNUSUAL, ODD and twisted shapes. Only after trees have grown, vines climb up afterward (「second」in order, after the trees) as parasites, often killing the trees eventually, by stealing the sunlight at the forest canopy. May be related to the element meaning「rolled」since vines exhibit a tendency to wind and coil around a tree. Many folks today「roll, coil」「appendages that kill」growing on trees (known as VINES) into winter wreath decorations. The so-called「ten heavenly stems」(十天干) all have something to do with a male erection or the application thereof: 1 甲, 2 乙, 3 丙, 4 丁, 5 戊, 6 己, 7 庚, 8 辛, 9 壬, 10 癸.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 折; second of 10 heavenly stems 十天干; second in order; second party (in legal contract); ethyl; bent; winding
Japanese EDRDG: the latter, duplicate, strange, witty
Unihan extended: second; 2nd heavenly stem
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.
Japanese vocabulary: 57 entries
Chinese usage: 60 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 24 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 10 entries
- Glyph.00221
- Strokes: 01
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