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バイ
BA I
Kun-yomi
うた ・ うた(う
u ta ・ u ta u

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Meanings of elements
MOUTH beside CAULDRON
…or: ORIFICE of FLESHPOT
「Mouth beside the fleshpot cauldron」might be imagined as a depiction of the telling of traditions, legends, ballads, and other stories while eating meals, and perhaps CHANTING PRAYERS to all the gods prior to digging in, thanking that you got to your neighbors before they got to you. Applied (by the faithful, no doubt) to mean GRUDGINGLY COMPLYING and THINGS TO BE DONE IN ONLY ONE WAY, not in any other, such as religious chanting and rituals, reciting traditional ballads and poems carefully with no changes to preserve the tradition, and refers to the seemingly endless repetition of memorized prayers that have lost all meaning, an INDICATION OF A LACK OF ENTHUSIASM. In Japan, primarily meaning SINGING traditional songs with shamisen accompaniment, ballads, reciting poetry, and so on.
 「Orifice of fleshpot」also describes a LACK OF ENTHUSIASM due to being placed into service so many times every day with so many different clients, day in and day out, all night long, and so on. GRUDGINGLY COMPLYING and THINGS TO BE DONE IN ONLY ONE WAY, not in any other, a reference to the short-term rental of service provider flesh orifices available in the shaman's SINGING girl whore houses perhaps, singing the same tune for clients again and again, over and over, rather than the used-once-and-then-forgotten orifices of the multi-thousand concubine members in the Chinese dragon emperor's harem.

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: modal particle indicating lack of enthusiasm; modal particle indicating that things should only or can only be done a certain way; to chant; see 梵唄|梵呗
Japanese: song, to sing, to compose a poem, to recite a poem
Unihan extended: final particle of assertion pathaka
EDRDG: songs with samisen

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 21 entries


Chinese usage: 2 entries


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