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「Rotation of chopping」is DECAPITATING a long line of captured enemy soldiers, criminals, or serfs. Watching violence being committed upon someone is an activity that has actually been highly popular and enjoyed by spectators from the dawn of human history, as evidenced by most motion pictures produced in the United States of America in recent years, 'because it's not too hard to get along with somebody else's troubles' [S. Goodman]. Nobody wished for the fun to end too quickly, hence the dramatic pauses, and SLOW PROGRESS.
「Wheel hatchet」is repeatedly rolling over a human's neck with a wheel as the victim was pawing like a cat, and so was the wheel, back and forth, until the head was completely detached from the torso. Behead a person with a wheel by rolling across the victim's neck in a repeated, sustained effort to decapitate, but to so do in a fashion that will not end the entertainment value quickly, and will prolong the torture and suffering of the hapless serf under the wheels…the SPORT OF KINGS.
「Rotation, vehicle, military」with「pawing motions like a cat」refers to making slow progress, or, to slowing the progress of something or someone, such as by constructing a moat around one's castle to deter and slow the progress of vehicles of unwanted guests, or the guests themselves if storming the grounds on foot, causing each guy stuck in muck below to become slightly easier targets for one's own team of archers upon the parapets.
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: to behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
Japanese: beheading, decapitation, to kill using a blade, to slice, to lop, to cut
Unihan extended: cut, chop, sever; behead
EDRDG: beheading; kill; murder
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
Japanese vocabulary: 46 entries
Chinese usage: 11 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 15 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
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- Strokes: 11
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