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HO ・ HO U
ta mo tsu
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「Orifice in resting position」will be neither contracting nor spreading any pathogens, PRESERVING and MAINTAINING the status quo, but also not generating any revenue…
「Person with mouth on woody」: clients wanted various GUARANTEES of safety (from errant teeth clenching, disease) and value for their money ('slimy, yet satisfying' in the circle of life), whilst service providers needed PROTECTION from abuse (head slaps, disease).
「Person」with「empty-headed, senile, space cadet」as one who provides needed PROTECTION, PRESERVATION. A「person with an idiot」is often called upon to GUARANTEE, to be a GUARANTOR who will financially cover any loss or damage caused by the fool. Then again, perhaps this is a warning against anyone who might promise and act as a financial GUARANTOR for another as being the action of an「empty-headed or senile ignoramus.」Seems to describe a「person with someone senile」who needs help with just about everything.
「While on vacation, within an orifice」clearly describes the need for PROTECTION, and a GUARANTEE of non-transmission of fluids in either direction in order to PRESERVE and MAINTAIN the status quo upon the return to normal work-related duties at home.
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: to defend; to protect; to keep; to guarantee; to ensure; Bulgaria; Bulgarian; abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚
Japanese: to keep, to preserve, to hold, to retain, to maintain, to support, to sustain, to last, to endure, to keep well, to wear well, to be durable, to guarantee
Unihan extended: protect, safeguard, defend, care
EDRDG: protect; guarantee; keep; preserve; sustain; support
Used within names (nanori)
う ・ お ・ ぶ ・ もり ・ やす ・ やすし
Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
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!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only 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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 512 entries
Chinese usage: 336 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 8 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 12 entries
- Glyph.02511
- Strokes: 09
- jlpt-N3 grade_05
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