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Apparently equates 'whom do you love?' with 'whom do you trust'? and a「person's words, speech」cannot fit the given external source meanings in many cases: in a perfect world, a「person」with「word」should always be BELIEVABLE…but is that so? (see 諶) the simple concept of「person's words」does not automatically equate to TRUST, FAITH, BELIEF, and may actually inspire the opposite in many cases, since if a targeted individual is too trusting and gullible, then it is likely another malicious person will attempt to take advantage.
「Person's verbal intercourse」in the old days being a LETTER, WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE.
Nevertheless,「person and sexual intercourse」had better always be a relationship based upon TRUST, and may be the case representing the most possible trust of another person, especially a few thousand years ago when society and life was far simpler than it is today, when「person and sexual intercourse」also meant AT RANDOM and AT WILL with the nearest available warm orifice…or, a cold orifice for necrophiliacs. Consider the contrary case: why would anyone engage in sexual intercourse with someone who was distrusted, or someone believed to be carrying disease? you can bet that all involved must have SINCERE FAITH and TRUST, BELIEVING in particular that no physical harm will come of it. TRUST being warranted is not always the case of course—ask anyone who has contracted the clap, genital herpes, warts, the pox, crabs, or some other problem at one time or another due to sexual intercourse, a group that health organizations report constitutes well more than half of the present-day population on Earth, and a much larger percentage in the good old days of a few thousand years ago when there were no antibiotics.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: letter; mail; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random
Japanese EDRDG: faith, truth, fidelity, trust
Unihan extended: trust, believe; letter
Used within names (nanori)
し ・ しが ・ しな ・ しの ・ しぶ ・ とき ・ のび ・ のぶ ・ まこと
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: 605 entries
Chinese usage: 407 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 17 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 8 entries
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