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a ta e ru ・ a zu ka ru ・ ku mi su ru ・ to mo ni
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Many people cooperating and INVOLVED with PARTICIPATION in a JOINT EFFORT to solve age-old and ubiquitous problems (controlling the populace with a religious theme that would attract devotees and adherents and keep them returning enthusiastically for more, stopping runaway slaves and asset loss, obviate biting for revenge while fellating and associated compensatory damage payments, mitigate the spread of disease and infection, eliminate miscommunication of directives to ewes, maximizing profits under centralized management and control, establishment of feeder enterprises in a vertically-structured conglomerate supply chain fulfilling a full array of economic demand, establishing professional level skills to limit competition via monopolies and secure client dependence for both sexual services and medical practice, and so on) with a single all-encompassing solution: elements also appear to merge「sitting or fallen person (匕 so popular in dynastic China)」with「high tension, no-longer-integrated feet」and「horizontal, array」or「repeatedly」in some fonts, depicting people holding up a person who cannot stand, or, subduing and holding down a person who is having her feet no-longer-integrated, or, a person who is being presented to her new owner, with all possibilities meaning to CONFER something, including disease.
Alternatively, some sources state that this glyph is the simplified Chinese version of「crow, magpie, butcherbird」(舃) all species infamous for the JOINT EFFORT required to peck and kill a small animal, such as a snake or ewe lamb, and then eat its meat. These birds congregate in 'murders' (and not 'flocks, gaggles, or bevies') due to the extremely violent, aggressive, and murderous behavior exhibited in the JOINT EFFORT of attacking prey. Interestingly, DNA testing has revealed all the crows that are members of a single murder are also related by blood, more like a tribe or extended family, such as groups of humans who inhabited the same cavern, or mountain valley. It is however difficult to see a murder of crows as much of a godsend, unless one considers them to be a rapid-acting disposal system of rancid meat leftovers or other carrion, which, admittedly was also a problem of the day. Crows are fairly smart and clever, too.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to take part in; and; to give; together with; (same as 歟|欤, final particle expression doubt or surprise, similar to 吗 or 呢)
Japanese EDRDG: bestow, participate in, give, award, impart, provide, cause, gift, godsend
Unihan extended: and; with; to; for; give, grant
Used within names (nanori)
とも ・ ゆ
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.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 98 entries
Chinese usage: 43 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 217 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 10 entries
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- Strokes: 03
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