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サ ・ シャ
SA ・ SHA
Kun-yomi
ひだり
hi da ri

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Meanings of elements
LEFT HAND on SEAM OF FLESH
Suggestive of the supporting hand, the hand that holds and pinches a seam together between two pieces of skin or animal hide so that the right hand may sew sutures and join the two sides, the LEFT HAND. In the era prior to lightly-scented tissue paper printed with floral patterns, the manner in which a genteel female would remove most of the remaining drops after urinating was to「use left hand to squeeze orifice closed temporarily」thus expelling the clinging piss off her genitals. On the other hand, literally, was her mouth used for eating only (the Indians in India still employ these age-honored sanitation practices).
「Now researchers say they have found some of the earliest evidence of humans using clothing in a cave in Morocco, with the discovery of bone tools and bones from skinned animals suggesting the practice dates back at least 120,000 years.」
[ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/16/scientists-find-evidence-of-humans-making-clothes-120000-years-ago 2012-09-17 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite; variant of 佐
Japanese EDRDG: left
Unihan extended: left; east; unorthodox, improper

Used within names (nanori)
そ

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? (More...) 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.



Japanese vocabulary: 139 entries


Chinese usage: 102 entries


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