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ZE I ・ NE I ・ ZE TSU ・ NE CHI
bu yu ・ bu yo ・ bu to ・ ka
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Or possibly「insect like your wife」are female blood-sucking insects, the many species of BLACK FLY:
「Most black flies gain nourishment by feeding on the blood of mammals, including humans, although the males feed mainly on nectar [sticky dew, a honeypot]. They are usually small, black or gray, with short legs, and antennae. They are a common nuisance for humans…. The larvae use tiny hooks at the ends of their abdomens to hold on…. They have foldable fans surrounding their mouths. The fans expand when feeding, catching passing debris…. The larva scrapes the fan's catch into its mouth every few seconds. Black flies depend on lotic habitats [places where fluids flow] to bring food to them. …Even non-biting clouds of black flies, whether composed of males or of species that do not feed on humans or do not require a blood meal before egg laying, can form a nuisance by swarming into orifices. Bites are shallow and accomplished by first stretching the skin using teeth on the labrum and then abrading it with the maxillae and mandibles, cutting the skin and rupturing its fine capillaries.」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly 2013-09-14 ]
Some sources also cite WHITE SOCKS, but apparently this reference was to the pathogens or larvae in no-longer-integrated foot binding cloths of service providers (「insect like your wife」as female blood-suckers), and not to actual stockings nor to any baseball team…may have referred to white splats falling onto one's socks,「rod dripping with final thought or sound.」GNATS are especially attracted by moist fructose-laden splats, such as human semen.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: (mosquito); Simulia lugubris; blackfly
Japanese EDRDG: gnat, sand fly
Unihan extended: gnat, mosquito
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: 3 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 1 entry
- Glyph.03988
- Strokes: 10
- other
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