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ZA ・ SA
ku ji ku ・ ku ji ke ru
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Likely the source of an idiom brought back home by the British opium traders that became part of English,「having a CHIP ON ONE'S SHOULDER」: a chip is a very small piece of wood, or woody, not「the big one」and so a concubine being forced to work as a mere accessory on a very small woody, say one of the lord's young sons, would be PERCEIVED AS A GRIEVANCE, a put down, and may create the SENSE OF INFERIORITY within those concubines attending to the small WOOD CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK as that much bigger chunk of wood the lord possessed. Elements suggest these concubines were also changing diapers filled with feces, just to give an idea of how young the son may have been. Nonetheless, having a「very small rod within flesh seam」of these concubines would also account for PERCEIVED GRIEVANCE, DISSATISFACTION.
Forcibly「using two hands」to「sit someone down」on their heels, forcing the person down onto the floor to THWART an attack might understandably cause a SPRAIN to knees or ankles, or both, and be involved with「punishment.」One tried and true old Chinese torturing punishment was to force a person to sit back on their own heels for a long time, in Japanese as 静坐 (quietly sitting on ground) or 正坐 (correctly sitting on ground), which is the standard procedure for all guests in a formal Japanese setting.
Indicates FRUSTRATION while not being able to walk at all, a SETBACK (onto your heels). After suffering a SPRAIN, a person will LIMP ABOUT and not be able to run or walk well for a time. And sure enough, after sitting quietly and immobile with all your weight on your heals for a long time following the standard procedure in a formal Japanese setting, a person will LIMP ABOUT and not be able to run or walk well for a time (try it yourself). Probably used to control any guests who might have had a notion to attack the host, giving the host time to react and strike the attacker first (a LIMPING DEFEAT) or to run away and hide in order to THWART the attack.
「Use hands」in this glyph may also refer to how a person is supposed to move about after sitting in this manner for twenty minutes or so, KNUCKLE CRAWLING.
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: obstructed; to fail; to oppress; to repress; to lower the tone; to bend back; to dampen
Japanese: sprain, to, to twist, to dampen, to discourage, to dishearten, to dispirit, to depress, to unnerve, to crush, to be disheartened, to lose heart, to be dispirited, to be crushed, to be snapped, to be broken
Unihan extended: push down; chop down; grind
EDRDG: crush; break; sprain; discourage
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.
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These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
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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: 16 entries
Chinese usage: 16 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 5 entries
- Glyph.03821
- Strokes: 10
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