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a ze ・ ku ro ・ ho to ri
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Some say refers to the RAISED RIDGES at the edges of rice paddies that divide one field from the adjacent paddy, that is, the wet lands are lying side by side, NEARBY. While this may be true today, formerly rice paddies were not side-by-side on flat ground, but instead cascaded in terraces down a hillside ('terrace farming').
Notable as dike (or, dyke) in reference to homosexual females as marshy wetlands lying NEARBY each other (a wetland on each side), just as glowing red embers at the tips of burning sticks (fagot (faggot)) is used in reference to homosexual males. DebunKanji does not state a moral opinion regarding the use of these terms to describe homosexuality of either sex, but is simply explaining how and why the use of the terms originated, and the glyphs behind that usage.
Elements of「wet filled orifice, split in half」「half on each side of wet area」describing one-half of an「incomplete」vulva having raised flesh on each side with a wetland or twisting orifice in the middle. Likened to a RIVERBANK, a LAKESHORE, the only difference being with this interpretation is that there will be two raised ridges, one on each side.
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: edge; side; boundary; bank (of a river etc); shore
Japanese: ridge of earth between rice fields, ridge between grooves in threshold or lintel, footpath between rice fields, causeway, on the bank of, by the side of, neighbourhood, neighborhood, vicinity, nearby
Unihan extended: boundary path dividing fields
EDRDG: paddy ridge; levee
Used within names (nanori)
ぐろ
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: 12 entries
Chinese usage: 8 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 19 entries
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- Strokes: 10
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