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SE I ・ SHO U
ta da shi i ・ ta da su ・ ma sa ・ ma sa ni
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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding 2012-12-17 ]
「Vertical with five」suggests a person able to stand vertically with all five toes on each foot, as when not yet busted. Nevertheless,「rod, reciprocal motion with five」and「rod of the dog」suggest application of one-handed rod whacking as NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER, CORRECT, PROPER and MORALLY JUST, the ORIGINAL FORM.
The「fifth rod」as it relates to a dog (see 㠪 and 戊) and man's best friend may suggest 1040 as a very large number of human dogs, and/or a very large number in the array of no-longer-integrated feet common in China's past…note however, it is not too likely that 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 human beings, male and female combined, have yet graced our planet by being born.
「Straight horizontally with cease, halt for a while」「horizontal motion with stop, serious concentration, foot」as REFORM to CORRECT A WRONG, NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER, become STRAIGHT or TO STRAIGHTEN, become MORALLY JUST with PROPER PRINCIPLES and so on, may refer to a medical procedure absolutely required after a body part became bent, crooked, curled, not straight, out of shape (see 歪) and the person in need of moral reform.
「Horizontally straight with feet」may describe someone not using the services offered by the shaman as short-term rentals, someone who walks on by and is not deterred, dissuaded or seduced by no-longer-integrated feet and small, young, professionally-trained orifice sets, a person who remains on the STRAIGHT PATH in life, CORRECT, PROPER and MORALLY JUST.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: just (right); main; upright; straight; correct; positive; greater than zero; principle; first month of the lunar year
Japanese EDRDG: correct, justice, righteous, 10**40
Unihan extended: right, proper, correct
Used within names (nanori)
おお ・ くに ・ ま ・ まさし ・ ただし
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: 550 entries
Chinese usage: 381 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 66 entries
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- Strokes: 05
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