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KO U ・ YO U
ka mu
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「Masticate with palm covering」is suggestive of covering one's mouth with a hand whilst chewing food with open lips, perhaps one reason why many Japanese females cover their mouth while laughing or chewing.
More importantly, BITING, NIPPING, GNAWING「upon a rod during oral intercourse」has always been a significant danger and great risk associated with that sort of activity when the fellatrix is still equipped with sets of upper and lower incisors (that make 'incisions'), or, six-year molars, or (shudder) both sets of teeth and is seeking some revenge for a perceived wrong that has occurred. Hence, the ancient shaman proprietress pimps needed to find a method that would mitigate their product liability risk, and conceived the idea of using pulverized feet for servicing clients instead of mouths with teeth (see「tooth, teeth」歯 for details), a business model that spread like wildfire throughout ancient China. How dis-integrating feet originated many thousands of years ago was probably related to repercussions of an angry lord after recapturing a runaway sex slave and his being intent upon it not happening again, with his subsequent humiliation of her (and self-preservation of his own meat in mind—avoid those gnashing teeth) and then explained to one clever shaman.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to bite; to nip
Japanese EDRDG: bite, gnaw, chew, gear with, dash against
Unihan extended: bite, gnaw
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: 11 entries
Chinese usage: 29 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 4 entries
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齒Similar glyphs with related meanings: 36 entries
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- Strokes: 09
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