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ブン ・ モン
BU N ・ MO N
Kun-yomi
ふみ ・ あや
fu mi ・ a ya

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Meanings of elements
PALM DOWN, HEAD with CROSSING HANDS or WHACKING MOTIONS
「Palm down, head covered」with「crossing or whacking motions」referring to a person's hand while creating an INTRICATE pattern, LIGHTLY TOUCHING or GENTLY STROKING something…original form included「pubic fur」(彣) to indicate where some of this stroking occurs (continues today, too), or to indicate the bristles on a calligraphy brush used for writing (likely, both meanings were intended). WRITING TEXT, a characteristic of Chinese TEXTS and of WRITING these glyphs. Also appears as an element to represent tattooing, used to create INTRICATE patterns in skin, by holding the needle「palm down」and stabbing with「crossing」intricate patterns to push ink under the skin. Elements can also be interpreted as PALMING HEAD with WHACKING, or as PALMING with PETTING STROKES (a pet's underbelly, perhaps?), for which you will need to draw your own conclusions.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins
Japanese EDRDG: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan
Unihan extended: literature, culture, writing

Used within names (nanori)
かざり ・ ふ ・ も

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? (More...) 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.



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Chinese usage: 628 entries


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