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BO U ・ HO U
tsu ku ri ・ ka ta ga ta ・ ka ta wa ra
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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
Refers to ONE SIDE OF a kanji glyph, and the right side in particular because that side is usually written with more intricate strokes and lines than the radicals that appear generally on the left, above, or below.
Some suggest the concept of a full sail, swelled by wind and secured to one side of a sailboat.「Palming upward emissions」「surround」and「side, method」or,「standing swelled surrounding side」perhaps as hands pulling up sails attached to the side of a sailboat, the SAIL RIGGING. The direction of a sail on a sailboat, as controlled by the intricate lines and rigging, is nearly always to one SIDE or the other, BESIDE the boat (and seldom in the direct center), but swings back and forth from one side to the other, 'coming about' when directions change or to change directions.
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: beside; one side; other; side; self; the right-hand side of split Chinese character
Japanese: incidentally, at the same time, side, edge, beside, besides, nearby, while, right half of a character when the left half is its radical
Unihan extended: side; by side, close by, near
EDRDG: right-hand side of a glyph; at same time
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?
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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?
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 dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 22 entries
Chinese usage: 69 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 16 entries
- Glyph.03368
- Strokes: 10
- elements
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