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シュウ
SHU U
Kun-yomi
とら(われる
to ra wa re ru

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Meanings of elements
ENCLOSED PERSON
…or: MALE PERSON, TAUT ERECTION within ORIFICE
The meaning of this glyph appears intuitively obvious: the「person」cannot get out of an「enclosure」and is CAPTIVE, or in QUARANTINE when diseased or infected. Or,「person in orifice」who is CAPTIVATED by sexual pleasures. Recalling that「person」is comprised of「erect and taut」when added within a「mouth, orifice」the erection is clearly captured, exposed to great danger at any moment, and in dynastic China this was the job of a SLAVE, a person ENSLAVED who was sold when quite young as a service provider or concubine. If considered from the perspective of a wealthy and powerful master, the whole idea of sexual SLAVERY is「to enclose a man's taut erection in a mouth or some other sort of orifice.」And conversely, it goes without saying perhaps that an「adult male person wholly within an orifice」has been made a CAPTIVE of sorts, who 'might as well face it he's addicted to sex' as it were.
 「Viewing women as commodities [see ] was also made customary…, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
  [ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ] 
 「Bound feet were a mark of beauty…. Women, their families, and [a husband] took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the 'Golden Lotus,' being about 7 cm (2.75 inches) long. …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 bound feet.」
  [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ] 
 「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
  [ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ] 
 「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977). In 19th century London the going price for a virginal, 12-year-old girl, of good background, was reported to be 400 pounds (Bullough, 1964).」
  [ https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01 ] 

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: prisoner
Japanese: imprisonment, captive, to be caught, to be captured, to be taken prisoner, to be arrested, to be apprehended, to be seized with, to be a slave to, to stick to, to adhere to, to be swayed by
Unihan extended: prisoner, convict; confine
EDRDG: captured; criminal; arrest; catch

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 32 entries


Chinese usage: 11 entries


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