洌 to cleanse, to wash, to clear away, to spiritually purify 丶,冽,汐,一,歹,刂,氵,列,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

レツ　･　レイ
RE　TSU　･　RE　I

Kun-yomi

きよ(い
ki　yo　i

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

冽

レツ,レイ,きよ cold and raw

　CONGEALED DRIPPING with DEPRAVED ROD SKEWED, SLANTING TO ONE SIDE, DIPPED, HEAPING TABLESPOON OF FLUIDS with REAMING
…or: COLD, FROZEN SOLID, SHIVER FROM FEAR with TORTURE TECHNIQUE, SEQUENCED IN ORDER, QUEUE, RANK, LINED UP
　

汐

セキ,しお,うしお,せい ebb tide, tides, flowing current of fluids, evening and morning, salt is present, brackish fluids, opportunity

　FLUID that is SKEWED, SLANTED TO ONE SIDE
…or: FLUIDS with EVENING ACTIVITIES
…or: FLUID with HEAD SLIDING into NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT and emphasis within
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

歹

ガツ,ガチ,タイ,× depraved, vicious, evil, infected, dead meat, flesh and bone being removed from within meat, denuded

　ROD with SKEWED, SLANTING TO ONE SIDE, DIPPED, HEAPING TABLESPOON OF FLUIDS
…or: ARRAYED at SUPPERTIME
…or: ROD with EVENING ACTIVITIES
…or: ROD and HEAD SLIDING within NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT WRAPPER
　

刂

トウ,× blade, sword, sever, cut, ream a hole, a reamer, shear, mow, lines of motion, skinning a head and neck, slicing skin

　VERTICAL MOTION with STREAM
…or: STREAMING ROD in RECIPROCATING MOTIONS
…or: SHAFT with HOOK
　

氵

×,さんずい fluidity, fluid

　emphasis on MANY DRIPS, DRIPPING, COOLING PROCESS
…or: MANY TIMES DROPS
　

列

レツ,× an orderly arrangement, proper sequence, torture technique, row, queue, rank, to form a line

　DEPRAVED SEVERING
…or: ROD HEAD with CUNNING and SLICING, REAMING
…or: FLESH FROM BONE and CUT
…or: ROD with HEAD SLIDING, SKEWED TO ONE SIDE within NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT WRAPPER in VERTICAL RECIPROCATING MOTION and STREAMING
　

Meanings of elements

emphasis on dripping fluids COLD AND RAW
…or: EVENING AND MORNING, BRACKISH FLUIDS, AN OPPORTUNITY with ROD STALK REAMING
…or: FLUIDS with DEPRAVED, INFECTED MEAT and REAMING SKINNING HEAD AND NECK, SLICING INTO SKIN OR FLESH
…or: FLUIDS with VICIOUS, EVIL, FLESH BONE BEING REMOVED FROM WITHIN MEAT, DENUDED and with the REAMER
…or: FLUIDS with PROPER SEQUENCE, AN ORDERLY ARRANGEMENT, ROW, QUEUE, RANK, TO FORM A LINE, TORTURE TECHNIQUE
…or: FLUIDS with ROD IN EVENING ACTIVITIES and with LINE OF MOTION STREAMING

WASHING bloody or soiled freshly-cut meat, or any sort of「deboned meat with reaming」especially with salt or salty water, was done to CLEANSE skin and CLEAR bacteria from the surface layer…it did not clear internal pathogens unfortunately, but it was a start. In the old days, referred to washing upon entering and exiting a shrine or temple and visiting with the service providers, the shaman's shrine girls…in more modern times after the discovery of pathogenic microorganisms, folks use the same facilities for washing upon entry to a shrine or temple to allegorically PURIFY their「hearts」as it is explained today (心 is carved into many of the stone basins, but formerly as a reminder to wash/rinse one's「spewing appendage」upon entry and exiting, as a necessity):「form a line with flowing fluids」to WASH.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: pure; to cleanse
Unihan extended: clear
EDRDG: pure

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. 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! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. 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 bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only have been worse?

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