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BO KU
u ra na u ・ u ra na i
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Becoming DIVINE (after ejaculation maybe?), going to heaven likely due to the feeling of euphoria caused by dopamine release and other brain-happy hormones circulated in the bloodstream during orgasm, nature's way of rewarding humans for doing their part to further propagate the species.
Any variety of vegetable related to Brassica rapa, including the turnip, rutabaga, neep, Chinese cabbage, bak choy, pak choi, Chinese celery, etc.「Varieties of Brassica rapa that have been developed only for the use of leaves are called Chinese cabbage.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip 2013-01-29 ]
Generally referring to the leaves of these plants (not the bulbous root, if any) that are ALWAYS FLACCID and soft, even while growing, with outer leaves that soon begin to droop, wither, turn brown and fall onto the soil even while still growing in the field and are NOT REVIVABLE, GOOD-FOR-NOTHING.
A humble and simple SLAVE, SERVANT (read: simpleton, stupid), always in the act of falling prostrate in abject obedience to his lord and praying for mercy. Also means 'being DEAD' (an oxymoron),「becoming DIVINE after death, going off to heaven」believed by SIMPLETONS (so said the sages), hanging loose, dangling and non-revivable meat. Source of the English expressions brought back from China by the opium dope-pushing drug lords,「cannot squeeze blood from a turnip」(someone dead will not bleed, someone poor has no money to squeeze),「fresh from the turnip patch or cabbage patch」(a simpleton),「fell off the turnip cart, cabbage truck」(a harvest of idiots as slaves). This glyph was used by the Chinese to describe the first European Christians in Asia, 'the foreigners' who believed themselves to be emissaries from God, pious and [outwardly] celibate holy fathers as simple, humble servants who thought of themselves acting divinely in the stead of God Almighty […step back and take a look at Christian missionaries from the point of view of the Chinese and Japanese].
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: see 蘿蔔|萝卜; to divine; to forecast or estimate; (of a place to live etc) to choose
Japanese EDRDG: divining, fortune-telling
Unihan extended: fortune telling; prophesy
Used within names (nanori)
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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: 18 entries
Chinese usage: 45 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 249 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 44 entries
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- Strokes: 02
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