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SHI N
fu ka i ・ ~bu ka i ・ fu ka ma ru ・ fu ka me ru ・ mi~
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Canines during copulation also might explain a PROFOUND and INTENSE, DEEP, EXTREME experience (究).
A「flow」that is「more than needed or natural」for「plants, trees」might result in thick vegetation growth up to a certain point, but a water flow that is strong enough to bury「plants in a hole, trapping trees」would more than likely be a disaster of some proportion. Recall as well that most plants and trees do not grow well or for very long when planted deep within a well, or pit, or a hole, so the glyph is not likely depicting that condition.
Some suggest elements as「flow」from「laughing cannabis herbs」referring to a「superfluous amount」of smoke「trapped within a pit hole」(蒸) to INTENSIFY it, describing a sort of purple haze that formed a DEEP, THICK atmosphere of PROFOUND INTENSITY. Related glyph indicates the original elements of「within roofed pit cavity is cannabis」(穼) to depict someone not up for a road trip in the near term. Within the caverns, and inside pit hole homes prior to the invention of window vents, the atmosphere whilst stoking herb fires would necessarily become filled with DEEP and THICK smoke, creating a PROFOUND and INTENSE experience (燥).
Scholars explain this as water surrounding not walking legs up a tree, which refers to someone attempting to escape from some occasional heavy flooding (…?).
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: close; deep; late; profound; dark (of color, water etc)
Japanese EDRDG: deep, heighten, intensify, strengthen
Unihan extended: deep; depth; far; very, extreme
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: 210 entries
Chinese usage: 201 entries
Related glyphs [ Toggle font ]
穼- Glyph.04652
- Strokes: 11
- jlpt-N3 grade_03
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