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BYO U
e ga ku ・ ka ku
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TRACE THE OUTER LINES OF AN OBJECT WITH ONE'S FINGERS, noting that the right element in combination with elements of both「clitoral bean」and「vagina booty」refers to「incest」(葍), hence this glyph may be the start of playtime (遊) with FICTION, using IMAGINATION, FANTASY, the telling of untruths and DREAMING OF STORIES, while MAKING A COPY of oneself with one's own offspring, adding more UPDATED DATA (one's own DNA?) to the results. Right element is「offshoot」of「emerging woodies with wetlands, slurry holes.」
DRAWING A DIAGRAM of graphic DESCRIPTIONS of various sexual activity and the ensuing problems of infection, since no one could read yet, the government authorities needed to literally DRAW A PICTURE of places on a MAP in demarcation zones that were off-limits and then post the map in a public place. DEPICTION of activities that caused the transfer of infection, and how to identify the symptoms of disease. Relates to the English expression,「I get the picture.」Notices were posted publicly that announced severing access to off-limit areas by posting armed patrols at the red-lined borders DESCRIBED, DEPICTED on a map of infected areas. Government attempts to control the spread of infectious disease, mostly contracted at the brothels. Troublesome and unpopular, yet thought to be worth the effort for slowing down the spread of contagion, but with the added effect of encouraging incest rather than risking infection:「hands on offspring」was the unintended result…another「seemed like a good idea at the time」problem: smaller, but…ah, cleaner!.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: depict; to trace (a drawing); to copy; to touch up
Japanese EDRDG: sketch, compose, write, draw, paint
Unihan extended: copy, trace, sketch; depict
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: 59 entries
Chinese usage: 37 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 16 entries
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- Strokes: 11
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