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KO TSU ・ KI TSU ・ KI ・ KI KE ・ KO CHI
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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyronie%27s_disease 2012-08-15 ]
[ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/30/sexually-transmitted-infections-europe-world-drug-resistant-bacteria-amr 2026-06-30 ]:「...particularly worrying because Neisseria gonorrhoeae has developed resistance to the antibiotics used to treat it, with only one last remaining recommended antibiotic, ceftriaxone, available. With a growing number of cases that are resistant even to this, gonorrhoea is in danger of becoming one of the first diseases to be no longer treatable.」
A person who has「prostrated」themselves and is「prone and twisting」as a vine twists (or is just being「clever」to scam you) as he or she BEGS for alms like a worm that has been stepped upon. Begging or groveling before a rich person is generally considered a HUMBLING, or HUMILIATING experience, hence this glyph is also the character to depict THOU, an archaic, formal form of「you.」Someone dripping gleet constantly and smelling of putrid meat due to severe gonorrhea was not employable in most households or businesses, and often became beggars in street gutters, scavenging for scraps of food…unless present and recording the birth in the U.S.A. perhaps, as the author of「WE THE PEOPLE…[and so on]…」:「(6 November 1816, New York) Historic Darwin Award. A Founding Father of the United States, Gouverneur Morris was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. He wrote the Preamble to the Constitution and has been called the 'Penman of the Constitution.' This intelligent and influential man died in New York City from an infection caused by shoving a whalebone into his urethra to clear a blockage!」(CAUTION: Do NOT try this at home! No DIY bougies, bogeys, or boogies, please. What a way to die, BEGGING for another chance, a HUMBLING and HUMILIATING experience that leaves a lasting legacy.)
[ https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2018-04.html 2021-03-28 ]
It has been speculated that boogie woogie (or bougie wougie, or booga rooga, or boogie oogie, and so on) blues music that may have originated in the piney woods of East Texas turpentine camps during the 1860-70s, which at first was characterised by a low, slow, steadily repeating bass rhythm akin to both a steam locomotive pistons scraping (to turn the wheels with a reciprocating rod in horizontal motion powered by the steam engine, not unlike the motions of a bougie) and to slow coitus, was a musical manifestation of the sadness and pain associated with penile reaming using a bougie, and the resulting oozing with a woozy feeling that accompanied this procedure (becoming "woozy from the bougie" morphed into "boogie-woogie" eventually with the "gie" sound mispronounced as a hard-sounding "g"). Brothels were formerly called 'boogie houses' for reasons other than as a place where sexual intercourse occurred with a slowly rhythmic beat piano player in the foyer, but also as a place where one contracted gonorrhea, 'the clap' with is slowly rhythmic dripping beats that caused the need for repeated bougie-boogie reamings and oozings…what other commentators miss is the fact that brothel houses of prostitution were called 'bougie houses' long prior to the advent of the music…and that the music was named after whores passing to everyone gonorrhea, not vice versa. This musical genre originated along the「Texas & Pacific Railroad, known lovingly as the 'Tits Ass Pussy Railroad' because of the large numbers of brothels near T&P tracks, and because prostitutes (the 'Railroad Ladies') often hitched rides on the T&P」 [ https://nonjohn.com/History%20of%20Boogie%20Woogie.htm 2019-06-16 ] Perhaps the source of the American phrase 'to be railroaded' suggesting a hurried process with questionable outcome. Today, obviously forgetting that the bougie house was where clap was contracted and the need for a bougie-boogie reaming became evident. See the lyrics to the original boogie-woogie tunes of the 1870s for further details, and patients being bougie-woozy.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to beg
Japanese EDRDG: beg, invite, ask
Unihan extended: beg; request
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: 36 entries
Chinese usage: 25 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 14 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 37 entries
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- Strokes: 03
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