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GOVERNING CONTROL, MANAGEMENT TACTICS, GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS were ordered BY LAW and enforced during endemic outbreaks of sexually transmitted diseases in the attempt to stem the tide. Infected people were forced to mask their disease by wearing a codpiece and loincloth to prevent contagious dripping in public places, and undergo treatment by reaming with a bougie (or, 'boogie'), again and again until symptoms abated. Official records were maintained of the treatment results to enable tracing of an outbreak or resurgence, and shaman brute squads enforced the laws under government authority, going door to door when the need arose (see: 'magistrate, authority' 尹 and 津).
「Quick movements, erection」in「firm hand scraping, or, inscribing law」depicts LAW ENFORCEMENT for an orderly society, describing the local powers and authorities to mandate the rule of law, and specifically with these elements, medical treatment of persons infected with sexually transmitted disease as the most threatening scourge in the old days, or any day, and prohibition of entry into the shaman's brothels, locking down business establishments that were the cause of disease clusters.
An OFFICIAL PERSON ready to defend the fief or subdue rebellion by grabbing a rod and whacking…or just someone prone to grabbing his rod and whacking.
Perhaps not strangely, this glyph is grouped in the Unicode tables with other glyphs containing the「buttocks, corpse, slouch」element (尸), and while such a grouping is not always definitive, the glyph may be depicting an OFFICIAL PERSON or a JUDGE, MAGISTRATE as a「hand grasping dead or dying, flagging or flaccid meat」or as a noble aristocrat with an「exceptionally wide, double-fat ass protruding on both sides.」
Some say the elements depict a hand holding a calligraphy brush, and might be signifying that the lord could read and write, but most lords thousands of years ago when these glyphs were created either inherited their positions through nepotism or won them by slaughtering someone else, neither case indicative of much literacy. Actually, lords are human beings no different than the serfs whom they rule. Lords did not need to bother with learning too much, being in possession of a 'birthright.' Other scholars suggest a hand on something stiff and erect to depict a FEUDAL LORD, such as on his rod signifying authority. One thing is clear: the elements describe scraping the insides, or 'inscribing,' with both medical treatment procedures and by written edicts for subjects inside the fief to have those procedures performed, like it or not.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to administer; to oversee; to run; magistrate (old)
Japanese EDRDG: an official rank
Unihan extended: govern; oversee; director
Used within names (nanori)
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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
Chinese usage: 5 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 29 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 28 entries
- Glyph.00312
- Strokes: 04
- jlpt-N1 elements
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