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KO U ・ GYO U
ma ji wa ru
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Elements appear to be「soft spot on center of head, weave, stitches」and「crossed, whacking motion.」Perhaps stitches are needed and a new soft spot might appear after being whacked multiple times on the head…
Scholars say that this glyph morphed into an element meaning「fagot (faggot), old man」(耂). Note that the original English and Chinese meaning of「fagot (faggot)」is a bundle of burning sticks, but is used also as a reference to「homosexual men」as folks with「rods with burning red embers on the tip, bundled together」and that in China the reference was not intended to be derogatory in the least, since most everyone engaged unabashedly in homosexual and autoerotic practices as a matter of course '…and why not?' they reasoned. DebunKanji does not state a moral opinion regarding the use of the term FAGOT (FAGGOT) to describe HOMOSEXUAL MALES, but is simply explaining how and why the use of the term originated, and the glyphs behind that usage.
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations [e.g., bestiality and ewe tupping] for that matter.」
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: lines on a trigram
Japanese EDRDG: to mix with, to associate with, to join
Unihan extended: diagrams for divination
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: 4 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 46 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 47 entries
- Glyph.00308
- Strokes: 04
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