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Horse chestnut BURR BALLS:「Aesculus seeds were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about 4 millennia, until 300AD. Aesculus species are woody plants from 4 to 36m tall (depending on species), and have stout shoots with resinous, often sticky, buds…The capsule epidermis has 'spines' (botanically: prickles) in some species…」
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus 2012-08-03 ]
Formerly eaten by everyone as an「essential need」a source of vitamin C. Chestnuts were a major food source for early humans and their animals (such as pigs) since chestnuts remain well preserved throughout the winter and are an excellent source of calories and nutrients when no other food is available. Chestnuts are attributed by Asian archeologists, based upon findings, as the sole reason that the human species was able to colonize colder climates in Asia and move out of the tropical zones, hence chestnuts were of extreme importance. High in vitamin C, chestnuts prevent scurvy, a malady that often strikes during long winters without fresh foods, important for a healthy appearance (scurvy causes skin blotches, bleeding gums and rotting teeth, pallor and weakness) and for staying alive: untreated, the human fatality rate from scurvy is 100%.
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: ball
Japanese: burr, cupule, case, cone, ball
Unihan extended: ball, anything round, sphere
EDRDG: burr; ball
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.
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Japanese vocabulary: 22 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 16 entries
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- Strokes: 11
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