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KI
ka e ru ・ ka e su ・ o ku ru ・ to tsu gu
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Marker stroke with「erection」means「to follow, in pursuit」and probably needs no further explanation than to point out the same elements are also the left side of「on fire burning, flaming hot」(火). Right element of「hand surrounding loincloth」meaning「subdue」and a flaming erection that has been subdued may then RETURN HOME, often something that RESULTS IN an occasion of BEING BLAMED.
Some sources say the right element is a「mop, broom」apparently located in a servant's hands who is following in pursuit behind the master and「mopping」up vomitus, diarrhea, or other excretions, and therefore the whole glyph depicts the master [eventually] RETURNING HOME after a night of partying, gambling, and romping in the caverns of the singing girls and indulging in wine, greasy puppy nuggets, and barbequed scorpion tails.
Left element of「pursue, follow」literally meaning to chase after folks with no-longer-integrated feet (who do not flee very fast, remember).
Still other scholars say that the right element represents a wife (…similar to any you have ever known?) as someone who could「subdue」others to assume control of a drunken husband out carousing until the wee hours of the morning by following his ass and striking him repeatedly about the ears, neck, head, shoulders and groin with a broom, giving the word「reaming」new meaning.
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: Japanese variant of 歸|归
Japanese: to send back, to send home, to come to, to end in, to attribute, to blame, return, coming back, to return, to come home, go home, to go back, to leave, on the way back home
Unihan extended: return; return to, revert to
EDRDG: homecoming; arrive at; lead to; result in
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: 197 entries
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