One task of the Chinese emperor's eunuchs was to record every interaction with his concubines:「holding rod erect with tonguing mouth」「what follows afterward with rod in orifice」and so forth.
　It is important to bear in mind that when glyphs such as 'read' and 'write' were initially designed, no one could read or write, not even the sages themselves yet, and most certainly virtually all of the rest of humanity was illiterate. Consequently, each glyph was descriptive of something or depicts an action, initially to describe some concept in an encoded manner so as to keep its true meanings protected and known solely within the elite group of sages who composed the glyphs and shared them amongst themselves for generations, only to be used for a written language thousands of years later as a vain demonstration to others of how smart one was to be able to read and write using encoded glyphs (eventually numbering in the tens of thousands), rather than employing a set of simple phonemic syllabaries or letters in an alphabet that could be much more easily learned, read and written by everybody in the society. This latter approach to language has been adopted most everywhere else in the world, and for very good reasons.
　Various element combination possibilities: (1)「same event occurring in succession, again and again」with「an array of items」and「say」or (2)「firmly grasping, inscribe」with「soil, clay」[Asian ink is made with clay and black soot] and「say」or (3)「side-to-side, end-to-end」[on the writing material] with「tapered tip」[a calligraphy brush]「say, having a reason to do something」or (4)「grasping rod firmly and scraping multiple lines」with「say, tongue movement in mouth orifice.」Refers to WRITING words that were spoken, perhaps taking dictation while recording notes in a memorandum,「what follows afterward with speech, tonguing mouth.」
　Laws and regulations (see 律) required medical records to be maintained in a local library (圕, 宬, 嫏 and 档) of patients with infectious diseases (see 津) for use as a database for learning, enabling comparisons, making diagnostic predictions, and tracing the paths and sources of infections. Likely, the same symptoms were observed and WRITTEN, recorded for myriad of patients「again and again」
　Today in the 21st century, these same sorts of procedures and more, have been mandated by governments for anyone exposed to an infectious virus (such as Ebola and COVID-19, among many others), and for reporting sexually transmissible infectious diseases, a practice begun long ago. Governments dislike panic and death destabilizing a subjected populace (so instead, leaders repeatedly speak lies about the facts?), including viruses and bacteria easily passed from one person to a group, even more than governments dislike foreign human invaders.

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: book; letter; document; to write; abbr. for 書經|书经
Japanese: document, book, penmanship, handwriting, calligraphy, letter, writings, to write, to compose, to pen, to draw, to paint, to write down, unfinished, to fill in, to fill out, to post a message, to store
Unihan extended: book, letter, document; writings
EDRDG: write

Used within names (nanori)
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