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ME I ・ MYO U
ku ra i
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The GRAVE, being DEAD or DEAD BEINGS (certainly an oxymoron) as some religious writings plainly state: Ecclesiastes 9:5 suggests that dead folks know nothing [stupid, open-mouthed stupor] and have no memories [ignorance], despite the reasoning of religionists and translators attempting to deny it. 'dead' means 'not living,' and 'living' means 'not dead' —ask any four-year-old child.
「Surrounded by speaking and deep six」unlikely based on this glyph's use in other glyphs, but possibly relates to the six stages of the UNDERWORLD for rebirth after death, being dead described in Buddhist dogma. IGNORANCE and STUPIDITY may have evolved in reference to anyone believing in the literal existence of HELL, the UNDERWORLD, the rebirth process, Buddhism, superstitions, numerology, and folks who dislike the numeral six or any other numeral, star charts, astrology, royal birthright, psychics, or other religious dogma in general. Recall that the Taoist sages held little regard for any sort of magical thinking, and especially religious-based tripe.
「Surround open-mouthed and emit from palm, six」as perhaps the source of the English term DEEP SIX (see 溟 meaning the SEA): burial at sea, throwing a corpse overboard, to jettison flotsam and jetsam, discard trash by tossing it into dark, deep water (not considered ecologically responsible any longer, only being IGNORANT and STUPID). Tossing a human being corpse overboard remains acceptable, as it will feed many sea creatures on its way FLOATING DOWN INTO THE GRAVE, HELL, THE DARKNESS OF THE DEEP WORLD BELOW, but bycatch or de-finned sharks, on the other hand, is being irresponsible.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: dark; deep; stupid; the underworld
Japanese EDRDG: dark
Unihan extended: dark, gloomy, night; deep
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: 47 entries
Chinese usage: 24 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 10 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 64 entries
- Glyph.03387
- Strokes: 10
- grade_08
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