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KE I
mi chi ・ ko mi chi ・ sa shi wa ta shi ・ ta da chi ni
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Or: FOOTPATHS through the woods were formerly created by animals other than humans, such as modern deer trails walked daily while foraging that, more often than not, are the shortest, the easiest, or the MOST DIRECT PATH from one point to the next, normally remaining on level ground and behind cover from predators as much as possible. Nevertheless,「loitering」at the shaman's「religious temple or shrine」IMMEDIATELY outside her cave o' wonders entrance was the beaten path and the shortest, easiest method for streaming into night soil.
Note that the Japanese word meaning「fool」includes the glyph for「deer, easy pickings」as someone on the footpath to the shaman's temples and shrines of love. Moreover, the English expression of 'remaining on the straight and narrow path' as it referred to finding and adhering to religious righteousness seems to have once meant staying on the beaten path to the shaman's religious house of divas to discover a divine experience, the way most-traveled by clients beating a path to her door, willingly falling into her better-built traps. Be sure to see 逕, and note that the modern replacement of the right element is 圣,「crotch with feces」if there remains any doubt.
FOOT PATHWAY could well be also described as a PATHWAY WITH A FOOT as depicted in erotic Chinese art, and by「aimless motions, small foot movements in a standing position」with「short soiled path」: men in dynastic China masturbated by wrapping no-longer-integrated feet around an erect penis:「Bound feet were once considered intensely erotic in Chinese culture. …The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 2 and 5. …Qing Dynasty sex manuals listed 48 different ways of playing with women's [no-longer-integrated] bound feet」(after removing the binding cloths, of course)
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
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: footpath; track; diameter; straight; directly
Unihan extended: narrow path; diameter; direct
EDRDG: path; diameter; method
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
Chinese usage: 75 entries
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- Strokes: 10
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