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ケイ
KE I
Kun-yomi
ちぎ(る
chi gi ru

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Meanings of elements
TALLY CUT in TWO HANDS
…or: PRICK REAMED BIG-TIME
Depending upon the font used, elements are「rod with short hairs, tally」or「prick」with「reaming」「in two hands, large」that suggest a painful procedure with a bougie CARVING and SCRAPING the inside of the urethra in order to clean the gleet and reopen the passageway, causing one party in a relationship to PLEDGE, PROMISE, VOW to not CONTRACT the infection again, and there was only one way to do that in the good old days: MONOGAMY (includes self-love, for that matter).
In Japan, also refers to CONJUGAL SEXUAL RELATIONS between spouses, perhaps as fulfilling their marriage PLEDGES, VOWS of MONOGAMY. In Western legal systems, marriage is also a legal contract, and not simply a religious experience.
Some suggest a piece of wood with the words of a pledge or promise carved onto each side (mutual promises between parties are what form a legal contract), cut in two parts with a zigzagged cut so that only the original two halves will reconnect perfectly to form the whole once again. Tallies were also cut with notches in order to count the fulfillment of a pledge they say, most often the repayment of a loan by the installment method. With either「two hands, big」meaning that the tallies of both sides have been given to two hands or joined together again by two hands upon fulfillment of the pledge into one (big) piece, one per party to the original contract.
Today in Japan, the same action is achieved by each party to a contract pressing their personal seal (chop) over the crack where pages of a contract have been joined, making it nearly impossible in the past to replace a page with altered text…modern high resolution scanners can fool some folks at first glance though, and second or third glances, too.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to carve; carved words; to agree; a contract; a deed
Japanese EDRDG: pledge, promise, vow
Unihan extended: deed, contract, bond; engrave

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: 69 entries


Chinese usage: 27 entries


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