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SHI N
fu ru ・ bu ru ・ fu ri ・ ~bu ri ・ fu ru u
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Meanings in Chinese are simply CAUSE TO SHAKE, to FLAP SOMETHING VIGOROUSLY USING FINGERS OR THE HANDS, to VIBRATE or RESONATE, all suggestive of rapidity sufficient to cause shuddering and quivering if the motions are sustained for a suitable length of time. Also in Chinese, to RISE UP WITH SPIRIT, to AROUSE YOURSELF.
Japanese adds all sorts of extended meanings, that again need no further explanation: to scatter or sprinkle drops of something in all directions. To lavish, flourish, prosper and thrive. To lean towards, such as to get a better look or to smell. Personal style. To make oneself pleasant to everybody, to smile at everybody, to try to please everybody. To fake or feign, pretend, to be acting a part as if faking an orgasm.
「Talented use of hands cutting furrows」requires plenty of body raising and lowering, up and down repeated action of the arms and body, and then sitting and resting while sipping a cold beer. Also implies that this action is ceased for some period and then started up again, just as a clam stops feeding, burrows into the sand during low tide, and closes its shell to mean a LAPSE IN ACTION THEN CONTINUING in order to catch your breath or to rest your wrist.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to shake; to flap; to vibrate; to resonate; to rise up with spirit; to rouse oneself
Japanese EDRDG: shake, wave, wag, swing
Unihan extended: raise, excite, arouse action
Used within names (nanori)
ふり
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
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, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
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 seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they 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 lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 364 entries
Chinese usage: 69 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 23 entries
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- Strokes: 10
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