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SHO U ・ SO U
ma sa ni ・ ha ta ・ hi ki i ru ・ mo s te
Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]
「Bier, litter, pallet, or stretcher」with「body, flesh, meat」with「array of streaming fluids, pulsing」depicting corpses of the opposing army and/or king, a CHECKMATE using Western chess parlance. A COMMANDING GENERAL who slaughters the enemy and fills deathbeds. MILITARY HIGH COMMANDER who fulfills the REQUEST and DESIRE of his lord.
A completely different interpretation is valid as THE PERSON IN ABSOLUTE CONTROL AND IN CHARGE using the elements as「sickbed, carving very thin slices of meat flakes while holding on with a firmly squeezing grip」to represent the medical services provider who at that moment is bougie reaming one's meat in order to clear scar tissue from the inside of the urethra as the result of contracting a sexually transmitted infection (being CHECKMATED, no possible move to escape, one's crown, corona, 'sheikh is helpless, dead, a stump'), carving a small PALLET FULL OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT. While this medical procedure itself is neither inviting nor desired, it does enable the patient to experience the inviting of desire after successfully completing the treatment regimen and staying alive, something that can be done, WILL DO, SHALL DO IN THE FUTURE…then again, the PALLET FULL OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT FLAKES IN DELICATESSEN-THIN SLICES may have been the leftovers from the tortured losing king.
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 desire; to invite; to request; general; commander-in-chief (military); king (chess piece); to command; to lead; will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago
Unihan extended: will, going to, future; general
EDRDG: commander; general; admiral
Used within names (nanori)
まさる
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: 77 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 12 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 5 entries
- Glyph.04416
- Strokes: 11
- grade_10
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