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Right element is「internally divided」with reference to no-longer-integrated bones inside the sacks of skin that were once feet, a procedure so common in China that it is estimated 40-50% of females had their feet no-longer-integrated and bound during the nineteenth century, a total over time of a billion individuals (law of supply for high demand). Further meanings of DECORATIONS, ADORNMENTS, ORNAMENTATION also refer to concubines tastefully placed around the lord's chambers like flowers in a vase, almost always in a sitting position and with「sticky no-longer-integrated feet.」…or to「sticky wad」with「internally divided, broken but not fully separated」as HAIR ORNAMENTATION, that is, dried semen stuck in hair that was broken up a bit but not yet fully picked, plucked out with fingernails or combed out yet.
Literally「18 liters of rice grain」that a feudal lord might CONJECTURE, RECKON, GUESS could keep one serf alive for one year equalling an ESTIMATED 50 grams per day, with scrounged vegetative and fungal supplements from the forest or cavern floor also assumed, along with a few snared small, furry protein sources. Today refers to one's annual SALARY, and by applying this same reasoning.
Note that the specified and measured quantity was not conjecture, rather, it was conjecture whether that amount was indeed the minimum on which a peasant could survive for a year without starving as the subject of the GUESS. It made no sense for the lord to waste grain making pissant peasants fat instead of his own family and concubines…same reasoning is used today to determine minimum wage limits versus Wall Street bonuses, apparently.
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: material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess
Japanese: ornament, adornment, decoration, fee, charge, rate, material
Unihan extended: consider, conjecture; materials, ingredients
EDRDG: fee; materials
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: 425 entries
Chinese usage: 207 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 42 entries
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- Strokes: 10
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