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セイ ・ ショウ
SE I ・ SHO U
Kun-yomi
ほし ・ ~ぼし
ho shi ・ ~bo shi

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Meanings of elements
TONGUING MOUTH with HEAD OF PRICK
「Say, speak」with「alive, raw」perhaps as a person who could「speak lively」before an audience, or「speak raw」(without practicing, or, while joking about sex), a STAR performer, with this glyph possibly the source of those terms in English.「Tonguing mouth」with「head of prick」meaning a SMALL AMOUNT deposited there, a visit to heaven, or as a means to see STARS, or to become a STAR service provider/ concubine, flashing and lighting up a room or the lord, any FLASHING, LIGHT-EMITTING HEAVENLY BODY:「to experience bright, flashing sensations, as from a blow to the head」
[ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/star 2013-01-30, emphasis ours ]
While it might be convenient to recall the top element as「sun, day」note that stars are not visible during the day (other than our Sun), nor are any stars alive, nor can it be said that the「raw sun produces」only a 'small amount' of light or heat energy as measured from the Earth…on the contrary, from the vantage point of Earth a few thousand years ago, there was no greater source of energy, anywhere. Use of this glyph as an element strongly suggests「tonguing mouth」with「raw, alive, producing」on「head of prick」(see 猩 and 腥 for examples), a smaller BODY THAT REVOLVES AROUND or SCREWS A MUCH LARGER MASS (and not vice-versa) such as a bevy of very young and small concubines with a lardass lord. Within solar systems, the planets normally revolve as satellites around central star(s), but this glyph is defined by external sources as referring to many smaller flashing heavenly bodies flitting around a large central mass.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: star; satellite; small amount
Japanese EDRDG: star, spot, dot, mark
Unihan extended: a star, planet; any point of light

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: 359 entries


Chinese usage: 412 entries


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